Hi,

I have several servers where there are multiple instances of SQL Server 2005 which are patched to different Service Packs. When I apply SP4 will this apply onto all the instances or can I do each instance separately/

Thanks in advance.

what is the best practice to recommend a new server ?

scenario: currentlt we have prod box 2003 windows and 2005 sql server. our plan is to upgrade it to windows 2012 and sql server 2012, my responsibilty is to suggest things like disk space and partitions, cpu, memory, virtual or physical box etc...considering present statistics of current prod box

what information do i need to collect from the current server?

can someone help me in this how to startup and document this recommendations

Thanks in advance!

I'm trying to re-install SQL Server 2012 Enterprise on a laptop that had an expired Trial edition.  Every step of this process is painfully slow, taking 5-10 minutes or more to launch and move between most steps in the Setup wizard.  In my Task Manager I can see ScenarioEngine.exe thrashing 100% of 1 core during that time.

OK its not a powerful laptop but it is running Windows 7, Office 2013, SQL 2008 R2 OK. All the SQL 2008 R2 services are stopped BTW.

I'm puzzled what that process could be working on e.g. while moving from the Feature Selection step to the Installation Rules step?

And when it hangs it really hangs - I cant even move the window around it is so stuck.

I'm starting Setup.exe as Administrator, from a C: drive folder.

Does anyone know how to avoid this issue?

newbie alert

What's the proper way to uninstall SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition - per core?

I've read that you should use Add and Remove Programs.  A SQL veteran tells me you should uninstall it using the SQL setup program.

I downloaded the .img file from MS Volume licensing site.  Installed it on MS Windows Standard Server 2008 R2 SP1 64bit side by side with SQL 2005 Enterprise Edition.

Can it be uninstalled using the SQL 2012 setup program?

And can it be uninstalled from the cmd line?

Hi everyone,

  Following an upgrade to SQL Server 2012 which didn't succeed, someone recommended that I repair my actual SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 setup.  The actual setup I have, which btw is running without any problem, is the following:

• SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 CU1 Express Edition with advanced services  (Reporting Services is installed and active)
• Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Professionnal Edition
• Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Express Edition
• Windows VISTA SP2 Ultimate Edition

  My request is very simple.  Before repairing a SQL setup:

• Do I need to stop any services?
• Any other thing I should stop, uninstall or else?
• Do I launch the repair from the "Control Panel - Install/uninstall program" menu or can I just run the "SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2" setup file I just downloaded from the .NET.  I prefer asking because I thought that running this setup file under administrative rights could help avoiding privilege problems or else?

  Hope to hear from someone,

Stéphane

I am working through Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Databases Training Kit from Microsoft Press.

In chapter 1 we install a core Windows Server 2008 R2, then we use the command prompt (because their is no GUI on a core install) to install SQL Server 2012. The base install of SQL Server 2012 has Named Pipes and TCP/IP access disabled, but the exercises require that I connect from a remote machine using SQL Server Managerment Studio. Obviously, being a core install, I can't use the SQL Server Configuration Manager to change this.

How do I enable Named Pipes and TCP/IP from the command prompt on a core Windows Server 2008 R2 install? I can uninstall SQL Server then reinstall with the setting enabled, but that would be impractical in a production environment so there must be a way.

Hi all.

I'm having a problem running an in place upgrade of SQL Server 2005 x64 Enterprise to 2008 R2 Enterprise.

When I run setup.exe and choose "upgrade", I am able to upgrade all components apart from the database engine. I am not given the option to select an instance prior to this. I have ensured that "x64" is selected from the bottom "options" tab on the initial setup screen. My current installed version of SQL is definitely 2005 x64 Enterprise, I have checked this with @@version and in the general properties of the Management Studio.

The strange thing is that if I select "x86" from the bottoms tab in SQL setup I AM able to select the 2005 instance, which lists the database engine as something it will upgrade in the next screen. Obviously I have not proceeded with the upgrade as I feel something is wrong somewhere.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can get the x64 install to detect the 2005 instance and upgrade the database engine?

Thanks

Almost a month ago my PC needed to be reinstalled. Previously it had Windows XP, now Windows 7 is installed.

From the beginning I could not install the Developer edition of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Now a month later I still cannot. In the meanwhile I have installed a 'preview' version of SQL Server 2008, but it is uninstalled now and (as far as I can tell) all related registry entries have been removed.

The error message never changed by the way, it says: "This SQL Server Setup medio is not supported on a X86 system...."

I found a small number of solutions on the web, like cleaning up the registry, but none of them worked on my system.

Now I am on a tight deadline, but also completely lost. so I can use some support.

Greeting Marc

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Hello, I am trying to install SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1, it failed several times at the beginning of installation, with mentioned error popping out. I searched through related topics so I could find same or similar problem and tried couple of things but none of them solve this thing. Advice would be very  helpful. I' having Windows 7 64bit. Here is the summary log file:

Thnx.

I am trying install SQL Server 2012 on Win 7 Laptop.  I always got this error message

“Could not load type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterGenericApplication' from assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91'.

Error code 0x84b10001.”

In the log file Detail_LandingPage.txt I got this errormessage:

(01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp: Running Action: ExecuteBootstrapAfterExtensionsLoaded (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp: Error: Action "Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.BootstrapExtension.ExecuteWorkflowAction" threw an exception during execution. (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp: Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionExecutionException: Could not load type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterGenericApplication' from assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91'. ---> Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ChainerInfrastructureException: Could not load type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterGenericApplication' from assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91'. ---> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterGenericApplication' from assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91'. (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute._CreateCaObject(Void* pModule, Void* pCtor, Byte** ppBlob, Byte* pEndBlob, Int32* pcNamedArgs) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.CreateCaObject(Module module, RuntimeMethodHandle ctor, IntPtr& blob, IntPtr blobEnd, Int32& namedArgs) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(Module decoratedModule, Int32 decoratedMetadataToken, Int32 pcaCount, RuntimeType attributeFilterType, Boolean mustBeInheritable, IList derivedAttributes) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(RuntimeType type, RuntimeType caType, Boolean inherit) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ExtensionService.AddDependencyInjectedObjectsByAttributeType[T](Dictionary`2 extensionDependencyInjectedObjects, T member) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ExtensionService.CacheDependencyInjectedObjectsFromExtension(String extensionId) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ExtensionService.GetAttributedTypes(String extensionId, Type attributeType) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ExtensionService.GetAttributedTypes(Type attributeType) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    --- End of inner exception stack trace --- (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ExtensionService.GetAttributedTypes(Type attributeType) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.WorkflowFactory.LoadWorkflowFromText(String workflowXmlText) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.BootstrapExtension.ExecuteWorkflowAction.LoadWorkflowFromDatastoreXml() (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.BootstrapExtension.ExecuteWorkflowAction.ExecuteAction(String actionId) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.Action.Execute(String actionId, TextWriter errorStream) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionInvocation.ExecuteActionHelper(TextWriter statusStream, ISequencedAction actionToRun, ServiceContainer context) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    --- End of inner exception stack trace --- (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionInvocation.ExecuteActionHelper(TextWriter statusStream, ISequencedAction actionToRun, ServiceContainer context) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionInvocation.ExecuteActionWithRetryHelper(WorkflowObject metaDb, ActionKey action, ActionMetadata actionMetadata, TextWriter statusStream) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionInvocation.InvokeAction(WorkflowObject metabase, TextWriter statusStream) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:    at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.PendingActions.InvokeActions(WorkflowObject metaDb, TextWriter loggingStream) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp: Received request to add the following file to Watson reporting: C:\Users\xhagea\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpF4BA.tmp (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp: The following is an exception stack listing the exceptions in outermost to innermost order (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp: Inner exceptions are being indented (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:  (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp: Exception type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ChainerInfrastructureException (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:     Message:  (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:         Could not load type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterGenericApplication' from assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91'. (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:     HResult : 0x84b10001 (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:         FacilityCode : 1201 (4b1) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:        ErrorCode : 1 (0001) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:     Stack:  (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:         at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ExtensionService.GetAttributedTypes(Type attributeType) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:         at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.WorkflowFactory.LoadWorkflowFromText(String workflowXmlText) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:         at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.BootstrapExtension.ExecuteWorkflowAction.LoadWorkflowFromDatastoreXml() (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:         at Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.BootstrapExtension.ExecuteWorkflowAction.ExecuteAction(String actionId) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:         at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.Action.Execute(String actionId, TextWriter errorStream) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:         at Microsoft.SqlServer.Setup.Chainer.Workflow.ActionInvocation.ExecuteActionHelper(TextWriter statusStream, ISequencedAction actionToRun, ServiceContainer context) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:     Inner exception type: System.TypeLoadException (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:         Message:  (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:                 Could not load type 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.ClusterGenericApplication' from assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91'. (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:        HResult : 0x80131522 (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:         Stack:  (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:                 at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute._CreateCaObject(Void* pModule, Void* pCtor, Byte** ppBlob, Byte* pEndBlob, Int32* pcNamedArgs) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:                 at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.CreateCaObject(Module module, RuntimeMethodHandle ctor, IntPtr& blob, IntPtr blobEnd, Int32& namedArgs) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:                 at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(Module decoratedModule, Int32 decoratedMetadataToken, Int32 pcaCount, RuntimeType attributeFilterType, Boolean mustBeInheritable, IList derivedAttributes) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:                 at System.Reflection.CustomAttribute.GetCustomAttributes(RuntimeType type, RuntimeType caType, Boolean inherit) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:                 at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ExtensionService.AddDependencyInjectedObjectsByAttributeType[T](Dictionary`2 extensionDependencyInjectedObjects, T member) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:                 at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ExtensionService.CacheDependencyInjectedObjectsFromExtension(String extensionId) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:                at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ExtensionService.GetAttributedTypes(String extensionId, Type attributeType) (01) 2013-03-20 11:09:21 Slp:                 at Microsoft.SqlServer.Chainer.Infrastructure.ExtensionService.GetAttributedTypes(Type attributeType)

I tried to the load the assembly x64\Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.Cluster.dll in Teleriks Just Decompile and it has no problem to load the assembly.

Erik

Hello all,

I am planning to try to move some SQL2005 and SQL2008 from a 2nodes (VMs) to another 2nodes (physical).

A. What I plan to do is :

1. add physical machines as 3rd and 4th node of Windows cluster and form a 4node Windows cluster

2. stop all scheduled user created jobs (backups etc.)

3. for each instance existing, run on 1st physical machine (3rd node) the "add node" for all existing SQL2005 and SQL2008 failover clustered instances (FCIs) and Service Packs

4. for each instance existing, run on 2nd physical machine (4th node) the "add node" for all existing SQL2005 and SQL2008 failover clustered instances (FCIs) and Service Packs

5. one-by-one, faiolover the instances from VMs to physical nodes and do all the ckecks for the health of the system. If ok run backups and continue failover the next one. If there is anything wrong failback check and retry.

6. Run backups, enable jobs

the tricky part is that the systems is a live system.

we plan to do the installations during non-maintenance window an do the failover inside maintenance window.

Is there anything causing the SQL Server to actually failover DURING sql setup of "add node"? (e.g.: cluster validation before addign to cluster)?

B. We have all kind if services to be installed, includingn SSAS, SSIS, SSRS and thye already exist in VMs in one resource group per instance. I guess that during each "add node" run per instance they are all going to be installed at once for this instance, right?

C. anything special we should be aware of?

thank you very much!

kind regards, Thomas G. Apostolou

Hi All,

We recently had SQL Server 2012 Enterprise licenses. Now i got a requirement to install a developer edition of sql server 2012. Can you please let me know where can i get the developer edition ? sorry for the dumb question.

if i download a trial version from microsoft site and enter same key of enterprise edition, does it mean it the edition will be developer edition.

My question is does developer/standar/enterprise depends on the KEY that we enter ?

Hi Experts

How to reduce resource waits on sql server without upgrading CPU??

Thanks

Hi,

I am trying to make my SQL Server 2005 a little more secure by using a non-standard static port.  I have already disabled the sa account, but I'm still getting hit at least once a second with an attempt to login to my server from a potential attacker so I thought using a static, non-standard port would do the trick. 

I stopped the SQL Browser service, left the port number unspecified for the IP1 and IP2 entries in the SQL Server Configuration Tool and set a non-standard port for IPAll. I thought that was all I needed to do.

I'm using a .NET website to test the connection.  I left my connection string in the web.config alone, so I was expecting I would get a login failure when the website attempted to connect to the database.  Without a port number specified in the connection string, it should attempt to connect using the default port and fail, right?  But, I'm still able to gain access to the website.

I made sure to restart the SQL Service after making changes.  Also, I have verified that the SQL Browser service is not running.  Is there any additional information I need to provide?

Thanks in advance for your time.

David

Hi Everybody,

I can't able to install SQL2008-R2 in my laptop. If i click on set up icon, i am getting error as below:

This SQL Server setup media is not suppoerted on a X64 system. To continue, run the SQL Server Setup media that matched your system.

Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Hello All,

I'm looking to setup a cluster and would like to use NFS or iSCSI.

I have a 1GBit network interface for the connectivity to my NFS or iSCSI target.

Is this a realistic design?

Can NFS or iSCSI be used for the datadrives? I've already seen some documents where MSFT state that they recommend local storage or FC SAN.
The network I'll be building on is very relialable, but still I'm worried about the consistency of my databases.

TCPIP however is designed to resend any eventual dropped packets, but I'm wondering if SQL can deal with this.

Does anyone have any experience in this?

What about the connection speed? is 1GBit sufficient?

I will run some System Center products on it, as well as a VCenter database.

Any guidance is much appreciated!

Filip

I've tried installing Security Update for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 (KB2716427) to our SQL Server 2005 Server which is currently runing 9.0.5292, but it fails.

It manages to install the Integration Services and Tools, but Database services fails to install with this message:

Product Installation Status
Product                   : SQL Server Database Services 2005 (MSSQLSERVER)
Product Version (Previous): 5292
Product Version (Final)   :
Status                    : Failure
Log File                  : C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\LOG\Hotfix\SQL9_Hotfix_KB2716427_sqlrun_sql.msp.log
Error Number              : 11032
Error Description         : Unable to install Windows Installer MSP file

Looking in HotFix.Log I can see:

03/05/2013 12:05:06.018 Copy Engine: Error, unable to install MSP file: f:\f728e69179bd8bda133a04855b7de1cf\HotFixSQL\Files\sqlrun_sql.msp
03/05/2013 12:05:06.080 The following exception occurred: Unable to install Windows Installer MSP file  Date: 03/05/2013 12:05:06.080  File: \depot\sqlvault\stable\setupmainl1\setup\sqlse\sqlsedll\copyengine.cpp  Line: 807

And then in the actual sql.msp.log file itself:

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:488]: Windows Installer installed an update. Product Name: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (64-bit). Product Version: 9.4.5000.00. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Update Name: Hotfix 5324 for SQL Server Database Services 2005 (64-bit) ENU (KB2716427). Installation success or error status: 1603.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Note: 1: 1729
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:519]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Transforming table Error.

MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Note: 1: 2262 2: Error 3: -2147287038
MSI (s) (0C:88) [12:05:05:534]: Product: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) -- Configuration failed

I can't see any other relevant error messages - I have a 7MB Log file but it's not at all clear what is causing the error. Any ideas?