I have a real installation mess n my hands. I'm attempting to install Sql Server Developer edition on a new Thinkpad with Vista Ultimate. There are no issues with limited resources. This copy of Vista Ultimate came with a trial copy of Office 2007 and SQLExpress was intalled with it. I unistalled SQLExpress being unaware of the Vista Compatibility problems. SQL Developer did not install after I removed SQLE. After researching this on the net, I read that developer could be installed as an upgrade if SQLE is on the system. So Installed SQLE with advanced tools deliberately not installing the tools. That installation went well. So then I tried to reinstall SQL Developer and received a message about having to setup via command line because of an exisiting instance. So I installed Developer with the folowing command line from an MSDN DVD.
E:\ENGLISH\SQL2005\DEVELOPER\SQL Server x86\Servers>start /wait setup.exe ADDLOC
AL=SQL_Engine INSTANCENAME=MHASQLE UPGRADE=SQL_Engine SKUUPGRADE=1 /qb
I chose the advanced options specifiying that the tools be installed. That installation failed to install the tools and I believe there was an error in the core data engine installation. I received an error message to check the logs but to be honest, there are meagbytes of log files and I don't really know what to check.
The core log looked like this:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Setup beginning at Mon Oct 29 11:11:04 2007
Process ID : 4816
E:\ENGLISH\SQL2005\DEVELOPER\SQL Server x86\Servers\setup.exe Version: 2005.90.1399.0
Running: LoadResourcesAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:3
Complete: LoadResourcesAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:3, returned true
Running: ParseBootstrapOptionsAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:3
Loaded DLL:E:\ENGLISH\SQL2005\DEVELOPER\SQL Server x86\Servers\xmlrw.dll Version:2.0.3604.0
Complete: ParseBootstrapOptionsAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4, returned true
Running: ValidateWinNTAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4
Complete: ValidateWinNTAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4, returned true
Running: ValidateMinOSAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4
Complete: ValidateMinOSAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4, returned true
Running: PerformSCCAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4
Complete: PerformSCCAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4, returned true
Running: ActivateLoggingAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4
Complete: ActivateLoggingAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4, returned true
Running: DetectPatchedBootstrapAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4
Complete: DetectPatchedBootstrapAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4, returned true
Running: LaunchPatchedBootstrapAction at: 2007/9/29 11:11:4
Error: Action "LaunchPatchedBootstrapAction" threw an exception during execution. Error information reported during run:
"c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\setup.exe" finished and returned: 1706
Aborting queue processing as nested installer has completed
Message pump returning: 1706
I believe residual office files are throwing the installation off but that could be an erroneous conclusion as the OWC portion always fails with a 1706.
What I need is basic SQL functionality and it's really important that I have the Studio Management Console.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what log to check toward getting a core data engine installed along with the olls and documentation for SQL Developer