SQL Server Patching
I’m going to share something that I use whenever I patch a server, as I am fairly sure that it will help anyone else who has to patch SQL Server on a regular basis. Especially those of us who manage large SQL Server estates.
Applying SQL Service Pack can be performed by Using Command Prompt in a Silent mode.
- Create folder D:\install on the windowsbox or create this folder on a fileserver.
- Download SQL Server 20XX Service Pack X (SQLServer20XXSPX-KBXXXXXX-XXX-LLL.exe) from Microsoft Siteand save the file to D:\install or on to the network shared drive.
- Click on the Start button on the task bar, click run, type the command CMD.exe, open this by Run as Administrator ,which opens the MS-DOS shell command prompt.
- Now root the command prompt directory to D:\Install directory as SQL SP is placed on this location.
If your SQL SP is network Share and you want to copy the file to local target server , then we use Robocopy method from command prompt to copy the file
Execute below Robocopy command in Command Prompt for copying a File:
Robocopy “\\NetworkShare\Folder\SPX” “D:\Install\SPX” /MIR
After copying the file run below command in Command Prompt for Clustered Instances:
“D:\Install\SPX\SQLServer20XX-KBXXXXXX-x64.exe” /SkipRules=Cluster_IsOnlineIfClustered /action=Patch /allinstances /qs /IAcceptSQLServerLicenseTerms
The above command will patch for all Instances installed on the Machine or WindowsBox.
Run below command in Command Prompt for Standalone Instances :
D:\Install\SPX\SQLServer20XXSPX-KBXXXXXXX-x64-ENU.exe /allinstances /quiet
The above command will patch for all Instances installed on the Machine or WindowsBox.
If you want to install a Service pack to Specific Instance from command prompt use below command :
D:\Install\SPX\SQLServer20XXSPX-KBXXXXXXX-x64-ENU.exe /instancename=YourInstanceName /quiet
The /quiet switch runs the update in unattended mode in the background .
Hope this post saves your time for installing sql service pack and it helps you a lot.
