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Windows 2008 Cluster Shares

If you're reasonably new to windows 2008 clusters, well we don't all get to upgrade to the newest technology when it first appears, then you might find the whole process of file shares somewhat bewildering compared to w2k3. I certainly struggled...
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Detach a database and take out a cluster.

During testing I managed to take my SQL 2008 cluster offline by simply detaching a database. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189128.aspx explaining the background. When you detach a database the ntfs file permissions go to the account that...