>> But when I checked the release os SQL SERVER it still show SP1 -8.00.384-

How are you retrieving this information? What is returned by:

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ProductLevel')

-Mike

>Hi,
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>I downloaded the SQL SERVER 2000 SP3a. My machines has installed SQL SERVER 2000 SP1 -8.00.384. I installed the SP3a following the steps the machines prompts me and rebooted the machines. So far so good. But when I checked the release os SQL SERVER it still show SP1 -8.00.384-
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>I repeated again the process but I didn't succeded. There were no error messages, even the SP is completely installed was shown.
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>What's could be the problem?
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>My machine is a Win 2000 Server SP4, OFFICE 2000, VIRUSCAN ENTERPRISE 7.0. It works only as SQL SERVER not sharing files and so forth.
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>Has anyone suffered the same issue?
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>Thanks.
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>Fernando Molina