RE: SQL Server 6.5 and service packs

Peter A. Sang ( (no email) )
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:32:39 +0100

OK, if it don't break, don't fix it ;)

But if you have a look over the SP's fixlist.....I'd strongly recommend
to use the latest SQL-SP(4us). It could save you countless hours trying
to fix a 'feature' thats a SQL bug already ironed out. BTW, this is also
valid for NT itself. I hope NT4-SP4 will be out RSN.

With the so-called 'hotfixes', it's another issue. You should only apply
them if required.

(Just spent the whole weekend with %&$@@! Echchange 5.5 before I got it
up&runnin'....sometimes a hotfix is really *required*. Merde!)

Just my thoughts ;)
Mit freundlichem Gruss,

Peter A. Sang
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale E. Reed Jr. [SMTP:daler@iea.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 1998 6:57 AM
> To: emerald@emerald.iea.com
> Subject: Re: SQL Server 6.5 and service packs
>
> > David Moore wrote:
> >
> > We are running SQL v6.5 with no SQL service pack, are there any
> problems
> > without a service pack that would effect Emerald, and what is the
> recommended
> > service pack if one is required.
>
> You should read the information about the service packs. MS doesn't
> recommend them unless they specifically fix a problem you are having.
> 6.5 SP3 has fixed several problems we were having without it on the
> Alpha boxes, but I haven't really seen those problems on the intel
> platforms.
>
> --
> Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea.com)
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