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Thank you both..<br />
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Chapmandew,<br />
&nbsp;I was aware of the add/remove programs, but was wondering whether services needed to be stopped first... &nbsp;or will the add/remove take care of it?
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for sure should stop the services first that way there are no connections...from there it should be fairly simple.
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Can someone provide instructions on how to uninstall a named instance from a SQL 2005 Cluster (active, passive, active).
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Can someone provide instructions on how to uninstall a named instance from a SQL 2005 Cluster (active, passive, active).

Uninstall Instance from SQL 2005 Cluster

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.