We have been hearing that customers installing SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 August CTP are hitting the following error: “Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created.” This issue is occurring due...

The August CTP of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is now published: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee315247.aspx . Give it a try and give us feedback!!!   This release does not have many changes around the Express when compared to SQL...

I have written several blogs covering SQL Server update being deployed though Microsoft Update.  See here for these blogs.  I thought it would be good, this time, to cover some general best practices obtaining SQL Server updates through Microsoft...

SQL Server is supported on Windows 7, but you may need to apply the latest Service Pack level to be supported.    Here are the supported products and SP levels: SQL Server 2005: SP3 is required SQL Server 2008: SP1 is required SQL Server 2008...

The installation of .NET 3.5 can fail for several reasons. Sometimes the .NET 3.5 install fails and sometime SQL Server Setup fails to detect .NET is already on the machine.   If you view the %temp%\sqlsetup.log you can determine whether the .NET...

In SQL Server 2008, we added a tool to fix some registry keys to address some known issues.  We recently discovered this tool can fail on rare occasions when it does not have permissions to all required registry keys.   If a rule fails with...

There have been reports that SQL Server 2008 will ask you to reboot after just rebooting.  This problem is happening because several applications are marking files in such a way that SQL Server 2008 Setup interprets as a reboot is needed.  ...