I\u2019ve just been working on a new server build that included SQL 2008.\u00a0 The customer wanted SQL 2008 (full installation) and SP1 for SQL 2008.\u00a0 I put both downloaders on the server and went to work.\u00a0 Firstly, SQL 2008 fought me on this clean W2008 build.\u00a0 I ended up doing a 3-phase installation of SQL (some components at a time).\u00a0 Then when I installed SP1 it broke the master database during the upgrade.<\/p>\n
I was at my wits end when I remembered I could slipstream or integrate the service pack into the installation media for SQL 2008.\u00a0 A quick search led to the article I needed.\u00a0 This page<\/a> shows you how to slipstream SP1 into SQL 2008.\u00a0 You then have only one install to do instead of two.\u00a0 <\/p>\n This sorted out my problem for this server \u2013 but it has me worried about other existing SQL 2008 RTM\/SP0 installations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve just been working on a new server build that included SQL 2008.\u00a0 The customer wanted SQL 2008 (full installation) and SP1 for SQL 2008.\u00a0 I put both downloaders on the server and went to work.\u00a0 Firstly, SQL 2008 fought me on this clean W2008 build.\u00a0 I ended up doing a 3-phase installation of SQL … Continue reading “Slipstream SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}