Uninstalling sql 2008 "URL"?

• Barkingdog

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  March 9, 2009 at 10:39 am

  #200586

  I'm looking for a URL showing how to "properly" uninstall sql 2008 from a box. The box has the SSIS tools, sql Reporting, and the database engine installed. By "properly" I mean is there a specific order in which these compoenets must be uninstalled?

  TIA,

  barkingdog

• kangeles

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  March 9, 2009 at 12:17 pm

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  Hi there,

  Microsoft has a guide for normal circumstances:

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143412.aspx

  Here is a nifty article that covers the case where the GUI won't complete the uninstall process properly and a manual uninstall must be performed (starts about a third of the way down the article:

  http://magmainteractive.net/weblogs/post/SQL-Server-2008-November-CTP-Uninstall-Headaches.aspx

  Hope this is of some help,