Hi, I am planning an upgrade from Infrastructre update 12.0.0.6318 to SP2 and have a content database which is >20GB. Is it recommended to detach databases when doing upgrades and what benifits do we get out of it. Also what databases shold be detached in the process(SSP, Search, all content databases, central admin db).

Hi, Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007, please refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467(office.12).aspx For database site>20G, use external backup and recovery tools, such as SQL Server 2008 or System Center Data Protection Manager Please refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263427(office.12).aspx Hope this helps Thanks! Stanfford