Hi,
I have encountered a very strange issue in a Production server which is soon to be decomissioned.
I manually stop the SQL Services (DB engine, SQL Agent, SSIS, SSAS) and even set their startup type to be disabled but around 1 to 2 hours later, I check again and the DB engine and SQL Agent services are running!
I suspect this is someTHING rather than someONE restarting the services but does anyone have any ideas of what this could be?
We have SCOM monitoring s/w looking at this server but I have gone into SCOM ops console and set this server to be in maintenance mode. Still the SQL and SQL Agent services are restarted somehow.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be restarting the services?? I should point out that it is my intention to stop the services permanently!
Many Thanks,
Phil