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May 14, 2020

Best practices for restart a machine hosting MS SQL Server

Hello Everyone, I need your support on the below scenario. MS SQL SERVER instance is running on Windows Server 2012 R2. Do I need to stop the ”MSSQLSERVER" service before restarting a Window...

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May 14, 2020

Generally speaking windows will wait 20 - 30 seconds for services to gracefully close. If you think more time is needed you can extend WaitToKillServiceTimeout

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/services/service-control-handler-function?redirectedfrom=MSDN

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