IN continuation to the post Rollback_of_CumulativeUpdate-hotfix-ServicePack I was asked about any procedure or steps on installing Cumulative update package 7 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 on Active node SQL 2005 cluster. The simple answer is all of such hotfix/Service Pack/Cumulative Update packages...
Windows Server 2008 is on full fledged wave now after it has been launched in February and it is obvious that many questions will be flying around about supportability & manageability for existing SQL Server versions such as 2005 at the moment. Think about managing the SQL Server 2005 Failover Clustering...
Few counters and gotchas for you to look for when you are installing SQL Server clusters, also using SELECT statements & DMVs to get SQL instance information. Such as: Do not install SQL Server on a compressed drive, by default the installation will fail. For naming the Cluster group within the failover...
Upgrading a SQL Server database should be straight-forward, when you haven't got much of constraints on the application code. In this regard we have blogged previously such as UpgrageTags posts. Here in this post I would like to go with few FAQs that are related to Upgrade process & procedure...
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