MSDE 2ksp3a TO SQL Server 2000, why is upgrade option disabled?

Hi,
I have latest version of MSDE on my win xp machine, I had installed a named version msde using the microsoft bootstrapper along with my application. During installation I had specified the datadir to be something like c:\program files\MyApp\Data
So far so good.
Now I am trying to install SQL Server 2000 dev edition on my computer and was hoping to upgrade this named instance of MSDE, but the upgrade option is disabled. All I can click on is "Create a new instance of SQL Server, or install Client Tools" and "Adv
anced options". Why is that. What am I missing. I read many times that upgrading named instance shouldn't be a problem.
I have to figure this out so that in future my client's can upgrade our MSDE named instance to SQL Server named instance if they need to..
Thanks
dev
correction, I had installed msde using the latest sql2ksp3 exe from microsoft.
thanks
dev
|||You can't upgrade MSDE to Developer Edition, you can only upgrade to SQL
Server 2000 Enterprise Edition or SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition.
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"dev" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F366A797-A10F-4EAE-8AD7-1BC89ED470C4@.microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I have latest version of MSDE on my win xp machine, I had installed a
named version msde using the microsoft bootstrapper along with my
application. During installation I had specified the datadir to be
something like c:\program files\MyApp\Data
> So far so good.
> Now I am trying to install SQL Server 2000 dev edition on my computer and
was hoping to upgrade this named instance of MSDE, but the upgrade option is
disabled. All I can click on is "Create a new instance of SQL Server, or
install Client Tools" and "Advanced options". Why is that. What am I
missing. I read many times that upgrading named instance shouldn't be a
problem.
> I have to figure this out so that in future my client's can upgrade our
MSDE named instance to SQL Server named instance if they need to..
> Thanks
> dev
>
|||Jasper thanks for the reply. Where can I find the document which states MSDE can be upgraded to which versions.
Does that mean that my client will have to invest in a server (NT 4.0 Server OR NT 4.0 Enterprise Server OR Windows 2000 server OR Windows 2000 Advanced Server..) if they wish to upgrade from MSDE to SQL Server...
thanks
dev
|||got it, thanks
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;823462
|||They'll need a server operating system e.g. Windows 2000 Server or Windows
2003 Standard to install SQL2000 Standard
HTH
Jasper Smith (SQL Server MVP)
I support PASS - the definitive, global
community for SQL Server professionals -
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"dev" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Jasper thanks for the reply. Where can I find the document which states
MSDE can be upgraded to which versions.
> Does that mean that my client will have to invest in a server (NT 4.0
Server OR NT 4.0 Enterprise Server OR Windows 2000 server OR Windows 2000
Advanced Server..) if they wish to upgrade from MSDE to SQL Server...
> thanks
> dev