I just upgraded my MS SQL Server 2008 R2 to 2012 on my local machine. Its all ok and there is no problems. All is working good (I mostly develop asp.net mvc applications and some desktop applications. All of them are pretty simple).
Can i safely delete 2008 server from my computer? Are there any things that i should care about?
Thank you.
When I upgraded to SQL 2012, I first removed SQL 2008 completely in Programs and features and then installed SQL 2012. This was fine and I had no problems. Where ever practically possible I would recommend removing the old product first before installing the new.
I would think that removing SQL 2008 should be fine. Worst case senario you may have to do a repair on SQL 2012 or re-install.
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I think you can help me.
I am developing an application for a small company. I have been working on Visual Studio 2015 with a SQL Server 2014 database and I have made a noob mistake. My app was almost finished but I discovered that the company has only one server with Windows Server 2003 on it, and it is not possible to update it.
Windows Server 2003 works up to SQL Server 2008 so I have tried but it has been impossible to me to attach my database to SQL Server 2008 (even changing compatibility level to 100) or connecting a new 2008 database to the application in Visual Studio 2015.
I do not know what to do now. Is there some possibility to make that my database works? Or is any other DBMS that would be better to work with my 2015 app in my 2003 server? Thanks!
You can create a database in production SQL Server 2008, then
create a Linked Server on your production Server to your development SQL Server 2014 and copy all the tables / procedures / functions over.
How to Create a Linked Server
Backup/restore works with older backup/newer restore server. Detach/attach do the same. The best solution here is to script developer DB (make sure you don't include newest features not supported by the production server) and run on production. If you want to move data as well, it is better to create at least two separate .sql's, one for schema and another for data.
I know it might sound naïve but is there's anyway to use the SSMS 2012 with SQL Server 2008 as it's our deployment server but I really hate the absence of Intellisense SSMS 2008 and it makes me waste a lot of time that makes using the GUI much more reasonable option
You need to install SSMS 2012 from the installation media of SQL Server 2012. Or as an alternative you can download and use SSMS 2016, which is still in beta, but can be downloaded and updated separately from a database engine - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238290.aspx. It has all features of SSMS 2012 and more.
Yes, I've used SSMS 2012 and 2014 against our production 2008 and 2008R2 SQL server instances.
I have used SSMS2012 against multiple versions of SQL Server (2008R2, 2012 and even 2014) and I have not encountered any problems so far. Anyway, I expect to be fully backward compatible, so it should work fine with 2008R2.
Is it possible to install sql server 2005 express and sql server 2008 developer edition in one machine ?
Any gotchas ?
Michael
Technically you should be able to without any problems. Sometimes they do occur though. Take a look at this thread for some potential issues.
yes it is possible, one of them needs to be a named instance (that is the only gotcha )
Yes. I have SQL Server 2005 Express and 2008 Enterprise on my machine. I have the 2005 instance named.
I haven't run into any issues yet but you should look at Sev's link for potential problems.
No problem, as long as you install the 2005 version first - I wasn't able to re-install SQL 2005 once I had SQL 2008 on my dev machine.
Marc
Folks,
Visual Studio installed SQL Server Express on my computer, which to date has satisfied my needs. I now need to do remote database support so need the full version of management studio. I tried to install the standard version but it is blocked, apparently because Express has newer versions of the files. Can I do this? Will they play well together?
Thanks
Doug
You cannot run SQL Server 2005 Express on the same machine as SQL Server Management Studio 2005. However, you can run SQL Server 2008 Express.
I uninstalled 2005 and installed 2008 on my machine to work around that problem.
See this blog post for more info.
You could probably also set up a slipstream for 2k5 install with the latest service packs and install it that way.
Your solution is pretty simple. Uninstall Express & install SQL Server 2005. Why would you need both running side by side when you have the full version besides there's less headache when you have only one instance of it.
When I try to install a new instance of SQL Server 2008 Express on a development machine with SQL 2005 Express already up and running, the install validation fails because the "SQL 2005 Express tools" are installed and I'm told to remove them.
What exactly does that mean?
After reading this article:
http://www.asql.biz/Articoli/SQLX08/Art1_5.aspx
I uninstalled the 2005 version of the SQL Management Studio but received the same error from the 2008 installer during my follow-up attempt.
Updates
1) Uninstalled the SQL 2005 Management Studio only. Received the same error from the 2008 install.
2) Removed all SQL 2005 common components. Received the same error from the 2008 install.
3) Installed the shared components from the SQL 2008 installation program. Received the same error from the 2008 install when trying to install the new SQL 2008 instance.
4) Uninstalled SQL 2008 components, rebooted, re-installed SQL 2005 Management Studio from installation media, rebooted, un-installed SQL 2005 Workstation Components from Control Panel, re-booted.
Installation of SQL 2008 is now proceeding as it should.
Seems likely that if I'd re-booted after update 2 above things would have gone more smoothly. :-(
Although you should have no problem running a 2005 instance of the database engine beside a 2008 instance, The tools are installed into a shared directory, so you can't have two versions of the tools installed. Fortunately, the 2008 tools are backwards-compatible. As we speak, I'm using SSMS 2008 and Profiler 2008 to manage my 2005 Express instances. Works great.
Before installing the 2008 tools, you need to remove any and all "shared" components from 2005. Try going to your Add/Remove programs control panel, find Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and click "Change." Then choose "Workstation Components" and remove everything there (this will not remove your database engine).
I believe the 2008 installer also has an option to upgrade shared components only. You might try that. Good luck!
In my case even after uninstalling all 2005 related components it didn't worked. I had to resort to a brute force way and remove following registry keys
32 Bit OS: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\90
64 Bit OS: HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\90
I had to unistall the Workstation Components and SSMS Tools Pack (SSMS Tools Pack is an add-in for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) including SSMS Express.)
Installation of SQL 2008 is now proceeding as it should.
The problem is that SQL 2008 MS has a bug where connecting to a remote server (say like a service provider collocation) it will always try to open the fist db in the list, and since the possibilities of been ur db the first on the list are really low, it will throw and error and fail to display the list of dbs... which using sql 2005 management studio it just works.
Wished I could use SQL 2008 MS, but looks like as far I connect to remote SQL 2005, SQL 2008 is out of the question on my dev machine :(
Just Remove the the Workstation Components from Add/Remove Programs - SQL Server 2005.
Removing Workstation Components, SQL Server 2008 installation goes well.
Simply remove the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005 from control panel
N.B. These notes are for SQL Server Express 2008 R2 (so Microsoft still haven't made this any easier). I also realise that I complicated things by installing 32-bit SQL Server Express 2005 and 64-bit SQL Server Express 2008.
I followed the steps by Josh Hinman above. Uninstalling the SQL Server Express 2005 "Workstation Components" was not enough. I required an uninstall of the 2005 Management Studio as well.
I also tried the Upgrade route that Josh Hinman suggested by clicking on the 'Upgrade from SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008'. This route never gave me the option of installing the components side-by-side it just went straight through the process of upgrading from 2005 to 2008. It completed successfully - but hadn't actually done anything. Thankfully though it hadn't harmed any existing database instances. So be warned trying that route.
If you currently have Red Gate SQL Toolbelt, you will need to unistall that too before continuing. Somehow it adds a reference to the 2005 version of the SQL Management Studio.
I'am trying to install SQL SERVER developer 2008 R2 alongside SQL SERVER 2005 EXPRESS,
i went to program features, clicked on unistall SQL SERVER 2005 EXPRESS, and only checked, WORKSTATION COMPONENTS, it unistalled: support files, sql mngmt studio
After that installation of sql 2008 r2 developer went ok....
Hopes this helps somebody
I also had to remove the SMSS before it would get past that step.