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Installing Hotfix on SQL Server may throw error 29538 and fail

In this case we were installing hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=960089 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Hotfix 3077 The Hotfix Setup would rollback. You will see the below error in the Hotfix.log file 06/24/2009 16:15:38.994 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:26 PM by sanjayap | 0 Comments

Upgrade from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 might fail with MsiGetProductInfo error

Consider a scenario where an upgrade from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 fails with the following messages while installing Setup Support Files. ******************************************************** TITLE: SQL Server Setup failure. ------------------------------ Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 13, 2009 12:46 AM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

The installation of client tools in sql 2005 fails with error 1722

Recently we encountered an issue while installation of client tools in sql 2005, so I would like to share the same in the following blog Problem Description The installation of the Client tools in SQL Server 2005 fails with the following error messages: Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 05, 2009 3:49 PM by Pariks | 3 Comments

SQL Server 2005 SP2 installation hangs on a 2 Node cluster with the message: "Awaiting first complete passive cluster node"

Environment: SQL Server Enterprise Edition 2005 32 bit on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP1 Consider a scenario where you are installing SQL Server 2005 Servce Pack 2 on a clustered environment. Sometimes you will notice that the installation get hung Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:04 PM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

Part – 1 : SQL Server 2005 Patch Fails to install with an error "Unable to install Windows Installer MSP file"

We have seen several issues where installation of Service Pack/Hotfix/GDR/CU fails to install on one or more components of SQL Server 2005. In this blog , I have tried to include few troubleshooting tips and tricks for these kinds of installation failures. Read More...
Posted Friday, January 30, 2009 8:36 PM by sanjayap | 17 Comments

SQL Server 2005 Setup Failing to Install on Cluster with Unexpected Failure while Performing the SCC checks

We have observed a number of cases where the installation of the SQL server 2005 instance on the cluster fails with the following unexpected Failure Error Message while performing SCC checks. ERROR MESSAGE: ==================== There is unexpected failure. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:01 AM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

Did you know... Error: 29565 SQL Server Setup cannot upgrade the specified instance because the previous upgrade did not complete

We have observed a number of cases where the installation of SP2 succeeds on Active Node while it may fail on the passive node while installing SP2 on the clustered instance of SQL server 2005. In order to find the cause of the failure on passive node Read More...
Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 5:07 PM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

Facts about How SQL Server 2008 setup works... #3

Setup.exe can be patched dynamically on the fly One of the drawbacks of the sql server 2005 setup was that if there was any bug detected in the code of the setup.exe , the patching of the setup.exe was difficult and at times next to impossible. With Katmai, Read More...
Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 1:25 PM by sanjayap | 2 Comments

Facts about How SQL Server 2008 setup works... #2

Salient Features of Sql Server 2008 (Katmai) Setup Minimize the MSI code for setup and use MSI code for what it does the best. In Sql 2005 entire setup process was coded using MSI code which uses the Windows Installer code and was found to be root cause Read More...
Posted Sunday, September 21, 2008 6:33 PM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

Facts about how SQL Server 2008 setup works...

In order to install, upgrade, uninstall, and patch the sql server 2008 instance on the system we need to call the setup.exe from the installation media. The setup.exe is an unmanaged code which checks the basic pre-requisites to launch the actual Setup Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:11 AM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

Unable to Install Security Patch 948109 to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition which is Installed along with ACT7 software

The ACT7 software installs sql server 2005 express edition along with the installation of ACT7 software. When we try to apply the latest security patch 948109 released by Microsoft for SQL server 2005, the installation may fail. In order to find the cause Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:19 PM by sanjayap | 3 Comments

Which Vulnerability security patches needs to be installed for SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005

There are new vulnerability security patches which have been released for sql server 2000,sql server 2005. We can refer the following KB article which provides the overview of the new patches which are released http://support.microsoft.com/?id=941203 Read More...
Posted Friday, July 11, 2008 3:47 PM by sanjayap | 1 Comments

Installation of SQL Server Express Edition on Windows Vista while Installing Microsoft Office Accounting 2008

There have been a number of instances where the installation of the sql express edition on Windows Vista which also gets installed along with Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 fails which ultimately causes the installation of the Office Accounting 2008 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:02 AM by sanjayap | 0 Comments

ERROR 29506 while installing the SP2 on the sql server 2005

While installing SP2 on the SQL server 2005, the installation may fail. Whenever the SQL server installation fails it creates a log in the following location. C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\LOG\ The above location generally contains Read More...
Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 3:28 PM by sanjayap | 0 Comments
 
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