John Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Sep 22 12:17:50 CDT 2003
Hmmmm... I will be running IIS, just haven't gotten around to re-installing it. AFAIK I can't "roll it back" though. I can just do a reinstall of Windows. This is a clean install from last weekend, nothing else but SQL Server installed yet. I install the latest SP just to avoid all the bajillions of files the Windows update wants to install if you don't apply the service packs. So is SP5 on the way to fix the SP4 issues? ;-) <rant mode on> >MR WindowsUpdate ;o) I have never made any claim that SPs don't cause new problems, only that it isn't generally worth my time to spend the weeks required to understand the issues re what the fixes are, what gets broken, what gets fixed, whether the fixed outweighs the broken etc. My job is to write databases, not spend my life researching SPs. It seems ludicrous to me that a company the size of Microsoft would spend their time fixing bugs, tell me that I should install the SPs so that whatever bugs they have found and fixed are taken care of, then I either refuse (and don't get the bugs fixed) or spend my life researching whether or not to trust them. Of course they screw up, so do I (VERY occasionally). But I can't spend my time being paranoid that they have screwed something up in fixing their original bugs or spend my life being paranoid that because I haven't applied the bug fixes something nasty is going to happen. With all the nasty viruses floating around, it seems that applying service packs just makes sense. And I haven't seen ANY dire warnings not to apply any given Win2K SP in all of the MANY EZines that I scan over the average week! I really don't much care whether you apply the SPs, but having been in this business as long as I have, I certainly expect MY customers to apply MY service packs! And if they refuse... it's on their heads. Your head is your business. I'm applying the damned service packs! And I truly get annoyed when it's implied that I'm being silly (or stupid) in doing so. <rant mode off> John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Francisco H Tapia Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:56 PM To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer]Is it just me? John Colby wrote: > 2k Pro (Desktop) SP4. > MR WindowsUpdate ;o), you should roll back SP4 and try the install of SQL again... there are KNOWN problems w/ SP4 and SQL Server spcifically in connectivity... in fact SP4 really only ought to be installed when running IIS on that same server, in any case only after a SQL install has been made anyways... -- -Francisco Inflammable means flammable? What a country! _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com