Patching MSDE 2000 with SP3....

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    I had installed two instances of MSDE on my laptop via the .NET Framework SDK 1.0 installation routines. I was able to patch the default instance using the version of SP3 that I downloaded from MS's website. However, the instance that has a name in the form <machine name>\VSdotNET cannot be patched using the same software. I researched this, and found a Knowledge Base article which addresses this special case. A link to a patch for named instances of MSDE created by .NET 1.0 is included. I downloaded this second patch and tried to apply it, with no success. Anybody else run into the same problem? If so, were you able to discover a workaround?

    Thank you very much,

    Sincerely,

    Matthew P. Seltzer

  • Is your instance installed in the default path? /mssql$instance/binn? We had issues with the installer.

    we also found that the original install path needs to be there.

    Steve Jones

    sjones@sqlservercentral.com

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/sjones

    http://www.dkranch.net

  • Hello, Steve,

    Thank you for your prompt reply. I will take a look and get back to you. Hope you don't mind if I have a few further questions for you if I run into trouble. (I am squeamish when it comes to running an unpatched instance of MSDE.)

    Regards,

    Matt

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