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Installing SP2 - Instance Shutdown

  • December 9, 2014 at 12:40 am

    #299226

    Hi everyone

    I want to install SP2 for SQL 2012, but I am not sure how my instance would be affected.

    I want to know if the instance will go down for any amount of time during the update? I can schedule a server reboot after hours, but don't want to apply the service pack if it will take the instance offline at any point.

    Thank you.

  • December 9, 2014 at 1:13 am

    #1763430

    The instance will be restarted multiple times and, during the installation when it is running it'll be in administrator-only mode.

    Gail Shaw
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  • December 9, 2014 at 1:27 am

    #1763437

    Thanks for the info.

    We have switched off our testing environment, to save UPS up-time during load-shedding, so couldn't test it.

    Will save the update for another day.

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