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Should the host machine always be restarted after upgrading an SQL Server 2008 instance?

My organization recently upgraded all its production SQL Server 2008 instances to Service Pack 3, Cumulative Update 1. It's my responsibility to make sure that our development database environments ...
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Meeting with DBAs regarding server upgrade project - Common concerns

I'm more of a network/windows admin and I've been tasked with overseeing a SQL server upgrade project. I need to meet with the DBAs and discuss their needs / wants regarding the upgrade. I don't want ...
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Upgrading Instances with Mirroring

If you want to upgrade or install a patch on two separate instances that house both the principal and mirrored database, how can you go about that? If the database that is being mirrored needs to be ...