you need to add that drive as a dependency to the SQL Server instance you wish to use it on. You will need to offline the service resource first, then...

which version\edition of the Windows operating systsem are you using?

you're welcome 😉

To be fair that does catch a few people out!

All username and password changes for the service accounts bound to SQL server services must be updated via SQL server configuration manager!

You are dowoading the wrong CU. You have selected x86 and not x64. Revisit the download page and select the correct CU. To see other downloads available click

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The backslash is not an issue, open a sqlcmd window and try it.

My screenshot shows, you can enter a statement on line 1 and you push return expecting the...

the clustered sql server instance uses a virtual network name which is shared between nodes.

There should be no issue

you could use SMO calls or build from T-SQL scripts!

no, if enetering T-SQL statements into the SQLCMD console you need to signal the end of the batch using the GO statement.

The attached screenshot shows this!

also, you may want to post in the correct forum section in future 😉

This should not be necessary unless the SQL Server instance is installed on a Vista machine!

what tool did you use to update the service account username and password?

Services snapin

SQL Server Config Manager

are there any errors in the Windows event log?

you will also need to issue a GO statement to signal the end of the batch and execute the statements 😎

you're welcome 😉

The 2 are vastly different. keeping it simple (forgetting...