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SQL Server Troubleshooting


Planning

Product overviews, feature lists

Check which SQL server release can run on which OS, latest cumulative updates, etc.

SQL Server 2008

SQL Server 2008 R2

Books Online

  • Books Online - the complete documentation set for SQL Server 2008

Upgrading tools and information

A fresh installation, followed by a transfer of your databases is the recommended way of upgrading your SQL server installation. If that is not an option, you can perform an in-place upgrade.

ServicePacks and Update information and downloads

General

  • 935897 - An Incremental Servicing Model is available from the SQL Server team to deliver hotfixes for reported problems
  • 822499 - New naming schema for Microsoft SQL Server software update packages
  • 977051 - How to apply a hotfix for SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 in a transactional replication and database mirroring topology

SQL 2008 R2

  • 2072493 - Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2008 R2

SQL 2008

General info, system requirements, supported configurations

  • 974829 - Some packages of SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition for Small Business Server display incorrect information about supported operating systems
  • 956893 - Support policy for Microsoft SQL Server products that are running on a virtual machine in a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environment
  • 822400 - Description of disaster recovery options for Microsoft SQL Server
  • 327518 - The Microsoft SQL Server support policy for Microsoft Clustering
  • 254321 - Clustered SQL Server do's, don'ts, and basic warnings
  • 835185 - Failover cluster resource dependencies in SQL Server
  • 2157198 - 32bit SQL Server Failover Clustering is not supported on a 64bit Windows Operating System
  • 945936 - The DHCP support is not available when you install SQL Server 2005 on a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster
  • 942176 - Description of the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) service and of alternatives to clustering the SSIS service
  • 922664 - SQL Server is not supported on Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers that run a Windows operating system
  • 304261 - Description of support for network database files in SQL Server
  • 2001270 - Things to consider when setting up database mirroring in SQL Server
  • 944837 - Description of the Replay Markup Language (RML) Utilities for SQL Server
  • 956208 - Description of cross-version compatibility scenarios for merge replication in SQL Server Compact 3.5
  • 309422 - Guidelines for choosing antivirus software to run on the computers that are running SQL Server

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