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Upgrading Win2k3 SP1 to SP2 on a Clustered SQL2000 servers

Dear all,

I have two Win2003 SP1 servers clustered and running two nodes of MS SQL 2000. I need to upgrade from SP1 to SP2 and i'm concerned if there will be any issues with SQL2000 later on.

I would also appreceate if you tell me what would be the best proceduers for doing the upgrade. Eg. upgrade the passive node first and restart it, they go to the active node, move it to the other node, then upgrade the SP2 and restart, and so forth.

thank you very much

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Guy Hengel [angelIII / a3]

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r_panos

AngelIII is right.

An advice: if you nodes are based on a RAID 1 (hopefully with a spare HDD) beofre upgrading each one, you may shut them down (one per time), take out the ID 0 (p.e.), bootstrap the node and proceed with the upgrade. Doing so you can have an immediate rollback of the system in case something goes wrong.

IT_Warrior

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thanks angelIII for the confirmation and info.

r_panos, we do have RAID1+0 for the main HDD running the OS, but would you please give me detailed information as yo how to do this bootstrap thing, i'm faierly new to the RAID technology. We use HP servers and the RAID has been done using the HP RAID utility that comes with the SmartStart CD.

thanks a lot for your great support

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