Re: POST SP2 HotFixes a pain..

From: Graham Harris (hgraham@okstate.edu)
Date: 10/30/02 

From: "Graham Harris" <hgraham@okstate.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:30:39 -0800

Arvind,
That's good to hear. I'm looking forward to an installer.
I apolgize for my previous post, the stress of development
and maintence can get to you after a while.

Thanks for your honest remarks,
- Graham

>-----Original Message-----
>Graham,
>No, you are not alone - we realize that these hotfixes
make deployment a
>rigorous manual process, and we are doing something about
it. A hotfix
>installer is in the works and will ship in the next few
weeks.
>
>--
>Thanks,
>Arvind Krishnan
>SQL Server Development Team
>Microsoft Corporation
>--
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>"Graham Harris" <hgraham@okstate.edu> wrote in message
>news:745501c2804f$81702fa0$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10...
>> Hi All,
>> Am I alone when I state that applying the POST SP2
>> HotFixes to my SQL Server is a pain in the rear? Why
>> doesn't MS offer an installer or a configurable
>> WindowsScript to do all that file copying?
>>
>> -Graham
>
>
>.
>

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