I am installing SQL Server 2008 – not that I planned to :-)
I am looking at the list of things I planned to do today. It does not say “Install SQL Server 2008 RC0”. Yet here I am at 7pm still playing around with SQL Server.
It went roughly like this.
- My notebook was only running SQL Server 2005 Express SP2
- Microsoft mandated that I applied a security patch a week or so back (I guess to protect Northwind!)
- Yesterday it tried to apply the patch
- Today it tried another 8 times
- By this point SQL Server 2005 Express no longer run.
- I went to VPN in and – failed the security check as I did not have a mandatory fix applied (see above)
- Hmmmm….
- I tried a few things
- Hmmmm
- I uninstalled Express
- I downloaded SQL Server 2008 Express RC0 (about 100MB)
- It installed – yey!
- It run – yey!
- I couldn’t connect to it with SQL Server Management Studio Express
- I couldn’t find a 2008 version to download
- I uninstalled Express
- I went to SQL 2008 on Connect
- I have kicked off a download of a full version of SQL Server 2008 RC0
- I may have it all working again by 9pm this eve :-)