I would love to agree with you, but the fact of the matter is that patch management is still a major issue, even with tools like those provided by Microsoft, Shavlik, and St. Bernard (among others) available. Take SQL Slammer, for instance. Getting different companies to agree to support us when we were talking about going to SP 2 with the hotfix or even to SP3 was a major chore. We weren't the only ones facing this issue. There was a general call on NTBugtraq on the issue. This problem is discussed a lot every time a new serious vulnerability comes out, indicating that patch management has no easy answers right now.

K. Brian Kelley

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Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring

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