Comments on: SQL SERVER – Frequency of SQL Server Reboot and Restart

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Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:54:57 +0000

[...] Server Reboots: This is on going debate that whether server should be frequently rebooted or not. Many people take side of rebooting it everyday and many people take side of not rebooting it ever. My personal opinion is that server may be rebooted once every fortnight when new updates are installed. I have previously written article about the same subject SQL SERVER – Frequency of SQL Server Reboot and Restart. [...]

By: Nat Morris

Nat Morris — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:39:52 +0000

We have few SQL Servers that have not been rebooted for over a year, one of the is running a production 130gb database (that one is SQL2000 on Win2003).

By: karthikeyan T(chennai)

karthikeyan T(chennai) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:07:35 +0000

9–months!!! amazing.. what is the configuration of ur server..? and how many GB is ur production database..

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:24:59 +0000

Interesting. I took a new position about 20-months ago. One of the first utilities they had me write was a VB program that used WMI to poll ALL computers on our network and obtain stats (OS version, memory config, disk space, etc.) and write to a database. One of the stats I pulled was date of last reboot. I noticed our primary SQL Server had not been rebooted in over 9-months. We are a small state hospital with about 400 employees using medical record tracking, medication tracking, HR tracking applications, as well as employee certification, training and license tracking. Quite impressive.