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Feb CTP fails during setup with "setup could not connect to the database for server configuration"....

With the release of Feb CTP, one of the known issues that's in this release is that setup might fail with a message that the server could not connect to the database.  It's listed in the known issues section of the CTP notes, but here is the error and workaround.

Error seen during setup:

"SQL Server Setup could not connect to the database service for server
configuration. The error was: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source
name not found and no default driver specified"

Workaround:

  1. Run the "SQL Native Client" repair from the same install location as you
    ran the setup first time. For example:

    <PathToSetupSource>\SETUP\sqlncli.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=OMUS /QB
  2. Run SQL Server setup again.

Published Friday, March 04, 2005 12:50 AM by nikop

Comments

Friday, March 11, 2005 2:08 PM by Julie Lerman

# re: Feb CTP fails during setup with "setup could not connect to the database for server configuration"....

THANKS! I have to do a presentation tomorrow on ADO.NET 2.0 and was just installing SQL Server Feb CTP on my laptop and had this problem. Your post was a lifesaver!!
Friday, March 11, 2005 11:46 PM by Niko

# re: Feb CTP fails during setup with "setup could not connect to the database for server configuration"....

Awesome! I'm sorry that we even had to release with this issue, but it's already fixed so the next release will be ok. Glad you stumbled across this post in time.
Saturday, March 12, 2005 7:46 PM by Jeffrey P. Silverstone

# re: Feb CTP fails during setup with "setup could not connect to the database for server configuration"....

Thank You. It saved my sanity.
Saturday, March 12, 2005 10:19 PM by Niko

# re: Feb CTP fails during setup with "setup could not connect to the database for server configuration"....

Yeah, it's easy to test your sanity with errors like this.
Monday, March 28, 2005 7:42 AM by Sameer Dehalvi

# re: Feb CTP fails during setup with "setup could not connect to the database for server configuration"....

Cool...! It works.. Thanks...!
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:22 PM by G. Diggity

# re: Feb CTP fails during setup with "setup could not connect to the database for server configuration"....

agreed, thanks for the post, I would never have read the release notes, since they usually have nothing useful...

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