Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Re: Problem Reinstalling SQL Server Express 2008 under Windows 7 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:22:02 +0200 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="nBFDv6s1VJQDuF1w6hpX2A"; logging-data="7924"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/rCoQKNV0KjvqZMpRk/qo8" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:toORkIrUlpuJGSz6tbkjTjGQ7a8= Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:999 Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes: > I was specifically referring to Denali. It did overwrite (or at > least, override) SSMS 2008. Denali = SQL 2012. If you are referring to the CTPs... Betas are betas, but I have not heard of anyone having had the problem that the new SSMS occluded the other one. I am fairly confident that you did just not care to find it. > I just spent a couple hours trying to sort out the versions. I > think I got it, but complications did ensue. > > I am running Windows 7 on my test box so I went with the 64-bit > versions. The files I settled on were: > SQLEXPRADV_x64_ENU.exe (version 10.00.1600.22) > SQLEXPR_x64_ENU.exe (version 10.00.5500.00) (SP3) > SQLManagementStudio_x64_ENU.exe > I was going to install them in that order. > > The first one throws a compatibility error. Yes, that's the RTM version of SQL 2008 which was released before Windows 7 was released. You should be able to install it, but you need to apply a service pack to have a supported installation. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se Links for SQL Server Books Online: SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx