Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!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: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:20:24 +0200 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <99v2p7hr9mcqg78b8tv6i8om2crmshoim0@4ax.com> 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="21674"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18PX8mrmjCd/S8xPWKyjNFZ" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k+6ZN/2Wr1b+YlOqUi9ig8dn4XA= Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:1004 Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes: > But as I noted in text you snipped, SP 3 *also* threw a > compatibility error. I am concerned that I might not have a proper > SSE 2008 installation. Do I? I do so like to avoid error messages in > software installations. I missed that part. Anyway, I have SQL 2005, SQL 2008 and SQL 2012 running on my machine without problems. Whether they produced any compatibility when I installed them, I don't recall. They run well anyway. I don't see why SP3 should generate a compatibility error. But it may depend on which components you install. What more exactly did these errors say? -- 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