You would have never guess this by the error message, but ""SQL Server 2008 setup requires .NET Framework 3.5 to be installed" when you have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed means that you need to install Windows Installer 4.5, which can be found here...

Got this error when logging into a machine that I hadn't touched in months: "the security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship" Not exactly sure why, but changing from a FQDN to a short...

PDC was great this year! Here's a quick list of my favorite sessions of technologies and products that Social Bookmarking will use soon... Stuff we'll use this year: Velocity ADO.NET Data Services Visual Studio 2010 C# 4.0 j...

Try the following if you get errors when upgrading to SP2 Give explicit (not inherited) Full Control permissions to "c:\program files\microsoft sql server\mssql.x\" for Administrators group Delete all the files in this folder: "c:\program files...