Thanks again for the comments.

We actually proceeded with the patching yesterday and decided to have a full outage.

This is a list of the actual faiback times experienced when failong...

Our organisations policy is to apply all CUs so it's not something I can change. We did apply this in our test environment some weeks ago but no one...

I've reposted my query on Home » SQL Server 2008 » SQL Server 2008 High Availability after I realised this was a SQL2005 thread.

Steve

A question on cluster patching?

I'm about to patch a SQL 2008R2 SP2CU11 instance to CU12. I start by patching the passive node and once complete I failover the instance...

Thanks for the response.

There was no Change Data Control enabled, but select name, log_reuse_wait_desc from sys.databases did flag the issue as replication.

I found a great article on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverfaq/archive/2009/06/01/size-of-the-transaction-log-increasing-and-cannot-be-truncated-or-shrinked-due-to-snapshot-replication.aspx.

It seems snapshot...

Jeez, I've spent most of my career developing proper process and procedures to deliver quality software products as I had it beaten into me from day 1 that software engineering...