This category discusses about some of the sql server setup issues seen or experienced by me.
While most experienced DBAs would maintain their checklist before installing and setting up SQL Server in the production environment. However SQL Server is a product which is very commonly used by Small and Medium Enterprise who do not necessarily have experienced DBAs. Infact the person, installing SQL Server may not be even a DBA. I…
Recently I was trying to apply a security update for one of my SQL instance and I encountered the following error in my summary log Note: For those who are not aware, summary.txt is located in C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server100Setup BootstrapLog A failure was detected for a previous installation, patch, or repair during configuration for…
It has been really long time since I posted my last blog and even though I do intend to blog more often, i couldn’t do it as much as I would like. Anyways I will try my best to blog as often as I can. In this post, I would like to mention small tips…
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. MSGID 50000 In order to troubleshoot the issue we followed the following steps 1) We…
While installing security patch KB 948109 on the sql server 2005, the installation of the patch may fail. In order to find the cause of the failure we need to look into the setup bootstrap logs which are located in the following location C:Progarm FilesMicrosoft Sql Server90Setup BootstrapLOGHotfixSummary.txt One of the cause of the failure…
While installing security patch KB 948109 on the sql server 2005, the installation of the patch may fail. In order to find the cause of the failure we need to look into the setup bootstrap logs which are located in the following location C:Progarm FilesMicrosoft Sql Server90Setup BootstrapLOGHotfixSummary.txt One of the cause of the failure…
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 of the installation we need to look into the setup boothstrap logs…
There have been a number of instances where we observed that 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 on Windows Vista to fail. So in order to successfully install Sql…
This post talks about the location of the log folder where all the sql server 2005 setup logs are located. It mainly provides the solution of the error 29506 during installation of the sql server sp2.