Newbie Question

I inherited a 2000 Advanced Server SQL 2000 Ent, Active-Passive setup. The
architect never got it working correctly, so he turned off the second node
and just left it running of the primary. We've been having reporting errors
in our application so I checked to see if everything was up-to-date and the
SQL Installation was still at the RTM level, no SPs at all (no wonder he had
problems). Because it's the end of the year and we needed to fix the problem
ASAP I evicted the second node and ran SP3a on the primary node to get our
reports on time.
Now what I'd like to do is set the thing up correctly, but am unsure of how
to approach bringing the evicted node back online as a failover node and get
it up to SP3a.
I'd be happy to hire an expert for a few hours if one of you MVPs lives in
Southern California, or wants to do a conference call and thinks that my
situation is too messed up to fix via newsgroup. If there is a good book I
can read on SQL clustering I'd like to hear about that as well.
Thanks.
Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://www.workthin.com
I think I may have found my answer here?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...5-d622b5b61369
&mid=8665605b-5a16-452f-8183-02b06b312b7f
"Patrick Rouse" wrote:

> I inherited a 2000 Advanced Server SQL 2000 Ent, Active-Passive setup. The
> architect never got it working correctly, so he turned off the second node
> and just left it running of the primary. We've been having reporting errors
> in our application so I checked to see if everything was up-to-date and the
> SQL Installation was still at the RTM level, no SPs at all (no wonder he had
> problems). Because it's the end of the year and we needed to fix the problem
> ASAP I evicted the second node and ran SP3a on the primary node to get our
> reports on time.
> Now what I'd like to do is set the thing up correctly, but am unsure of how
> to approach bringing the evicted node back online as a failover node and get
> it up to SP3a.
> I'd be happy to hire an expert for a few hours if one of you MVPs lives in
> Southern California, or wants to do a conference call and thinks that my
> situation is too messed up to fix via newsgroup. If there is a good book I
> can read on SQL clustering I'd like to hear about that as well.
> Thanks.
> --
> Patrick Rouse
> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> http://www.workthin.com
|||Yep.. That is the correct procedure. See 'Maintaining a Failover Cluster'
in BOL for a detailed version. Pretend your second node has failed
completely.
Geoff N. Hiten
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Senior Database Administrator
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"Patrick Rouse" <PatrickRouse@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I think I may have found my answer here?
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...5-d622b5b61369
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>
> "Patrick Rouse" wrote:
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