Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Installation of Service Pack 4 for SQL 2000

All,

I have a problem with installing SQL 2000 Sevice Pack 4. Please see Part II.

Service Pack 4 comes in four parts and each one is to be used to apply to different SQL server components.

Part I - Analysis Service Pack - Complete.

Part II - MSDE component - Problems. The original problem was that it needed a strong password. I got around that by supplying the sa password. Now it says that the sql server instance name specified is invalid. I spent some time researching this and have tried to add parameters in an ini file to specify the instance to be updated. So far everything I tried has failed. Currently, I am not sure what to try next. Setup will not run from the dos prompt.

Here is what my setup.ini file looks like:

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SAPWD="nochange"

TARGETDIR="C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\Mssql$Mssqlserver$RPMS\Binn\"

DATADIR="D:\Mssql\Mssql$RPMS\Data\"

INSTANCENAME="FHDP1IRMPA01\RPMS"

Part III - SQL Server 2000 (64-bit) - No need to install since it does not apply to the machine.

Part IV - Database Components - Complete.

I would appreciate any help or suggestions anyone can provide. Thanks in advance.

PeterJR

there is a switch BLANKPASSWORD=1.

also - try just using "MSSQLServer" for your instance name.

|||You cannot have "\" in the instance name. I am guessing the first part in your instancename is the machine name, but that is not necessary, nor correct.

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