SQL Eval version installed instead of volume licence
Hi,
I've come across a problem where a contractor has installed SQL 2008 R2 evaluation version instead of using my volume licence key installation. I found out how to extract the key from the VLK version and tried to put it into the evaluation version but it says it is the wrong version. I have a number of databases running on that server and I don't really want to back up all of them, export users, maintenance tasks, etc., and have to uninstall SQL and reinstall the correct version and restore them all again.
Is there a way of running the VLK installer to "upgrade" the evaluation version to the correct version? Are there any command line switches I can run the setup.exe with to ensure it does the upgrade correctly?
Thanks.
I've come across a problem where a contractor has installed SQL 2008 R2 evaluation version instead of using my volume licence key installation. I found out how to extract the key from the VLK version and tried to put it into the evaluation version but it says it is the wrong version. I have a number of databases running on that server and I don't really want to back up all of them, export users, maintenance tasks, etc., and have to uninstall SQL and reinstall the correct version and restore them all again.
Is there a way of running the VLK installer to "upgrade" the evaluation version to the correct version? Are there any command line switches I can run the setup.exe with to ensure it does the upgrade correctly?
Thanks.
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Vitor Montalvão
If Barry's solution doesn't work then another solution is to stop current SQL Server service, copy all system databases (except tempdb) to another location and then uninstall SQL Server Evaluation Edition. Then install the correct SQL Server Edition using the same paths as previous version, stop the new SQL Server service and then overwrite the system databases with the copied files from the previous version. Start the SQL Server and you'll should have all Logins, User databases and Jobs.
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The edition upgrade went through jsut fine