Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2008 – Install SQL Server 2008 – How to Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 – Installation Tutorial

By: Lia

Lia — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:44:19 +0000

the screenshots are very useful! thanks

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By: vikas

vikas — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:11:37 +0000

Hi,
I wonder if you seen this before. We recently upgraded to sql 2008 r2 (From 2000 instance). Very few stored procedures broke. The reason is, in the select statement it has two periods.

For example: Select p..ProjectsNumber From Project

Do you think it;s upgrade issue? I didn’t find any details about it so far :(

Thanks
Vikas

By: Paul Fenstermacher

Paul Fenstermacher — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:40:51 +0000

We develop applications that use SQL Server, Oracle (Linux, Windows), Sybase (Solaris) and other DBMS.

I wish there was some way to install the SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise product without creating any instance.

This is because when we build up a new system from scratch, at the point where we perform commercial software installs, our standard is that none of our in-house developed software is installed at that time. It gets installed later, after all the commercial software, via an in-house aotumated process.

So for example, with Sybase and Oracle, we install only the COTS product during an early stage of the system build-up. The installation of the COTS products is the responsibility of System Administrator, not the DBAs.

Much later in system build-up, our scripts that create the Sybase server/databases and Oracle instance/schemas are installed. Creating the Sybase server/databases and Oracle instance/schemas are DBAs responsibility.

With MS SQL Server there does not seem to be to any way to avoid creating a database instance when the MS SQL Server COTS is installed.

Does anyone know of a method to do this?

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:33:22 +0000

select @@VERSION

By: Shaiju CK

Shaiju CK — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:43:43 +0000

Hi Pinal,

How do we find out the installed SQL is Client or Server?

By: sa

sa — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:57:08 +0000

I installed sql server with these instructions. If I want to access the sql server db using sql developer tool, what should i do?

By: Anil Mahadev

Anil Mahadev — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:42:58 +0000

@Jerry,

Also you may wanna take a look @ the primer resource @ MSDN, when upgrading

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393(SQL.90).aspx

Thanks

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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:30:41 +0000

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By: Jerry Hung

Jerry Hung — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:46:01 +0000

Thanks for the screenshots

Now in future when anybody asks anything about 2008 installation, provide them with a link to here