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Jess - 28 Jan 2006 22:34 GMT

Hi - I'm brand new. I downloaded SQL 2000 with my school agreement. In
class the teacher mentioned that we should immediately download the patches
before we run it. What patches should I install. I downloaded the
Professional version off the MS website today.
Thanks

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Brett I. Holcomb - 28 Jan 2006 23:25 GMT

I believe SP4 is the must current service pack. Go to the MS SQL home page
or search for SQL 2000 downloads.

> Hi - I'm brand new. I downloaded SQL 2000 with my school agreement. In
> class the teacher mentioned that we should immediately download the
> patches
> before we run it. What patches should I install. I downloaded the
> Professional version off the MS website today.
> Thanks

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Hank Arnold - 29 Jan 2006 10:27 GMT

Be careful. If the installation is to support a vendor application, then you
need to be sure that the vendor supports it. SP4 makes some fundamental
changes to the database structure/ The vendor of our medical database is
still "evaluating" SP4... They only support up to SP3a

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>I believe SP4 is the must current service pack. Go to the MS SQL home page
> or search for SQL 2000 downloads.
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>> Professional version off the MS website today.
>> Thanks

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Brett I. Holcomb - 29 Jan 2006 20:13 GMT

Hank has an excellent point - I made an assumption you would check with your
vendor to see what they support.

> Be careful. If the installation is to support a vendor application, then
> you need to be sure that the vendor supports it. SP4 makes some
> fundamental changes to the database structure/ The vendor of our medical
> database is still "evaluating" SP4... They only support up to SP3a

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Jess - 29 Jan 2006 16:33 GMT

Thanks - I'm using it thru with school for now and to learn with it.
Eventually work is going to purchase it and replace all the access db they
use now. So I guess it's ok to download up to sp4
Thanks again.

> Hi - I'm brand new. I downloaded SQL 2000 with my school agreement. In
> class the teacher mentioned that we should immediately download the patches
> before we run it. What patches should I install. I downloaded the
> Professional version off the MS website today.
> Thanks

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