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Can you copy the installer to your local machine and try installing once..<br />
SQL Server when installed from a shared location or discs might give some issues like this..
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Can you copy the installer to your local machine and try installing once..
SQL Server when installed from a shared location or discs might give some issues like this..

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Hi,<br />
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I have SQL Express installed on 2003 Server.<br />
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Upon startup of the server I get an error message:<br />
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Your SQL installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with (error getting instance id from name).<br />
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The SQL installation is running properly as I have two databases running perfectly well.<br />
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Any ideas how I resolve this as until then I cannot perform any SP installations.
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Hi,

I have SQL Express installed on 2003 Server.

Upon startup of the server I get an error message:

Your SQL installation is either corrupt or has been tampered with (error getting instance id from name).

The SQL installation is running properly as I have two databases running perfectly well.

Any ideas how I resolve this as until then I cannot perform any SP installations.

SQL Server Instance Problem

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).