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And finally, my SQL install is back to normal.

I was a bit of a selfish bunny at the London Girl Geek Dinner last week, and cornered Eileen Brown to see if she had a SQL minion that could help me try to get the client tools installed again; unfortunately the SQL Evangelist position is still open, but after refilling her wine glass and joking she owed me a support call for being her booze monkey she reached into her handbag and produced a quick assist card. If you've ever found yourself at a party and someone says "Can you fix my computer?", well Microsoft have the answer...

posted @ Thursday, May 03, 2007 6:50 PM | Feedback (3)

More SQL Problems

Last month I blogged about the problems I had when trying to upgrade to SQL Express SP2 (and MS's refusal to let me open a support incident on it). As the Scottish Developers day draws closer and one of my presentations depended on SQL Express I decided to try to clean everything up and try again. Eventually I managed to uninstall SQL Developer Edition. Once the machine was clean, and had I hand deleted a bunch of left over registry entries I tried the SQL Express SP2 install. It worked! Bliss. So next was installing SQL Developer Edition. This was problematic to...

posted @ Tuesday, April 03, 2007 6:33 PM | Feedback (3)