Does anybody know how to make the installer do this, since there are no explicit options to select Developer at all? Thanks. start the 'Background Intelligent TRansfer Service'by selecting it, and right-mouse click >start. Along with SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 4 CTP, the Redmond company is also offering early adopters the possibility to test drive SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Service Pack 4 (SP4) CTP. What I really want is to upgrade 2005 Developer to 2008 Developer. I then decided I didn't want two side-by-side installations and cancelled out of that.
So then I tried a separate instance of 2008 (instead of an upgrade) and it informed me that it was going to install 2008 Developer! (There is no explicit choice to select developer in either installation path, as far as I can tell). After getting a notice that the install has failed, I get these log files. 2005 Developer Edition installed on XP Pro sp2 and have not been able to get OLE DB Provider for DB2 Version 1.0 with Service Pack 1 to install. Microsoft Support Lifecycle Site If you search for SQL Server 2012 on the Lifecycle Support page you will see the results for the previous service pack Service Pack 2 and the following information for the current. So I figured it was trying to install Standard 2008 over Developer 2005, which is not a supported thing. Failed Install Of SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition On Win XP Pro. So if the SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 4 is due in June 2017, then the Service Pack 3 will lose its support approx.
For information about supported upgrade paths, see the SQL Server 2008 version and edition upgrade matrix in Books Online.
The specified edition upgrade is not supported. Rule "SQL Server 2008 Feature Upgrade" failed. But when I ran the upgrade, I got to the "upgrade rules" and only one failed, with this message: So I cleared all the problems manually and it looked like I was good to go. I ran the Upgrade Advisor and the only problems it turned up were problems that everybody would get (warnings about the full-text changes, etc.). 00 (Intel X86) Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2) Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Now I am trying to upgrade my installation to SQL Server 2008. It automatically gave me the Developer Edition so I went with it. Two years ago I tried to install SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition. OK I have a similar problem but not the same.