Installing a Service Pack from the Command Line
Like the SQL Server 2012 main install, a service pack can also be installed from the command line with no user interaction. This capability is useful if you need to install the service pack to a number of servers and want to avoid having to go through all the Install Wizard screens each time. To run a service pack from the command line, you must first extract the setup files from the service pack download file, which is an executable archive file. You can do this by running the service pack executable file with the /x option from the command line. This launches the extractor, which prompts you for a location to extract the files to.
After extracting the service pack setup files to a folder, you ...
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