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Friday, October 23, 2009 4:26 PM

Should I have a SNAC with my cumulative update?

Here is a question we have received from several customers and internally at Microsoft: Do I need to apply the “SNAC” package that comes with some of the cumulative updates? Just so we are all on the same terms, SNAC refers to SQL Native Client . and
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 7:41 PM

The Future of SQL Server Express Installation and Voting with Microsoft Connect

The SQL Product team that owns setup is looking to improve the SQL Express installation experience including application developers who look to embed SQL Server Express with the install of their application. Peter Saddow is a Program Manager on this team
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 5:30 PM

SQL Server Cumulative Update or Service Pack Fails With - CREATE DATABASE failed

Here is a situation where a cumulative update patch can fail if the default database path for the data and/or log either does not exist, or there is a permissions issue.  This example is based on a SQL Server 2005 Cumulative Update 4 for SP3. 
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:54 PM

SQL Server Setup prompts with “The installed product does not match the installation source(s).” (Part I)

Recently I looked at an issue when upgrading from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 and in the middle of the upgrade it would halt asking for a matching source for VSS Writer.  However, there is nothing descriptive to tell you what specific source
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:46 PM

How To Test Drive SQL Server Clustering For Free

I imagine that many of you are like me when it comes to purchasing software.   I want to take a test drive (evaluate) it before I buy it to make sure it really meets my needs.   You don't make a automobile purchase by just reading
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:44 PM

Installing .NET 3.5 Framework for SQL Server 2008 on a Windows 7 / Windows 2008 RC2 Builds

The SQL Server 2008 install requires the .NET 3.5 framework.   Changes in Windows 7 can prevent SQL Server 2008 from installing the .NET 3.5 framework pre-requisite.   Instead you may need to install the framework separately. In Windows
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 3:08 PM

SQL Server 2005 Setup Failure (Multi-Core, Tri-Core, …)

SQL Server 2005 has a startup check that fails on some of the newer CPU socket designs (triple core, tri core, 12 core, …) as outlined in the knowledge base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954835 Continued testing shows that the NUMPROCS workaround
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 5:50 PM

SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Cumulative Updates Explained.....

NOTE: I've made a change to this blog post to account for the fact that actually 6 fixes in CU4 for 2008 RTM fixes DID made it into 2008 SP1. One of our readers sent me the following questions I think you will find valuable when understanding our recently
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 9:47 PM

The 3 Things you Need to Know to Install SQL 2005 on Windows 2008 Cluster

Today I was walking a counterpart through installing SQL Server 2005 cluster on a Windows Server 2008 cluster and realized there are three specific key things you need to know when installing SQL 2005 on Windows 2008 cluster.  I also saw that it
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Monday, March 30, 2009 12:38 AM

SQLDumper unable to generate mdmp files in SQL Server 2008 Failover clusters

SQLDumper utility is used by various components of the product to generate and save diagnostic information in the form of mini-dump and other log files. You will normally find the output files [with extension .mdmp, .txt and .log] created by sqldumper.exe
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:48 PM

How to fix your SQL Server 2008 Setup before you run setup (Part II)....

NOTE: Now updated for SQL Server 2008 SP1 RTM. Last year you might have read my post where I showed you how to patch setup for RTM for SQL Server 2008 before you launch setup . This processing involved installing a Cumulative Update to apply fixes for
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:01 PM

SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Setup Failures (Compressed DATA Directory)

We are always looking at customer issue reports in order to improve our software and your experience.   The SQL Server Setup development team has identified numerous Watson reports of failed setups due to the compression state of the DATA directory.
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:04 PM

Installing SQL Server 2005 SP3 or SQL Server 2008 on builds prior to XP SP3 Can lead to Bug Check (0xF4, Blue screen, Critical Process Termination)

Due to a bug in Windows XP builds prior to the XP SP2 hot fix or XP SP3 release you may encounter one of the following bugs while attempting to install SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2005 SP3 based builds. An application that uses the Sxs.dll file crashes
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:54 PM

How to fix your SQL Server 2008 Setup before you run setup...

Huh? This is not meant to be a brain teaser. The purpose of this post is to help you avoid problems with SQL Server 2008 setup before you run..well setup. Why not take advantage of known fixes we have for setup to avoid the problem in the first place?
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Friday, September 26, 2008 2:36 PM

Welcome to SQL Server 2008 Patching

We have posted the first cumulative update for SQL Server 2008 aptly named Cumulative Update 1 (CU1). I thought before you considered installing a patch for SQL Server 2008, you would like to see a tour of what it looks like compared to SQL Server 2005
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