April 13, 2015 at 5:57 am
Hi everyone,
Can you help me please? I want to do a service pack upgrade on Sql Server 2005 from SP2 to SP4. I believe such upgrades are fairly low risk. I have been told that good backups before the SP, including master/model/msdb and you should be OK. Would you agree with that?
Is there anything else you would add to this? Any common gotchas or things to watch out for?
I would appreciate any advice/suggestions/user-experience you would like to share.
Thanking you,
J.
PS. I'm not a DBA but a dev. doing some DBA work...
April 13, 2015 at 6:06 am
It's fairly safe. Good backups are something you should have anyway, not specific to an upgrade.
Gail Shaw
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April 13, 2015 at 8:59 am
You're making a modification to your server. Regardless of how "safe" that modification might be, yes, I'd make darn sure I have backups in place and that I've tested those backups so that I know that they can be restored and that I know how to restore them.
As to the Cumulative Updates, I'd always test it on something other than production first to ensure there are no impacts to my production applications.
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