November 9, 2009 at 9:54 pm
We accidentally installed sql 2008 Enteprrise edition on one of our servers and I want to downgrade it to Sql 2008 Standard.
I went to "SQL Server Installation Center" > Maintenance > Edition upgrade. The wizard ran, I entered a valid Sql 2008 Std key, but one of the "edition Upgrade Rules" failed. (The "SQL Server 2008 edition upgrade" rule). The reason given was "The Selected SQL Server instance does not meet upgrade matrix requirements." (Duh!!). I noticed that the "SQL Server 2008 edition downgrade" rule had passed but the "Next" button was grayed out. So I'm stuck. Do I need to uninstall the Enterprise edition on this server and install Standard 2008 in its place or is there a better approach?
TIA,
Barkingdog
November 9, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Easiest and best way to fix your issue: Buy a Ent License 😉
Personally I would uninstall and reinstall with the Std key.
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November 29, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I agree with Henrico Bekker, uninstall and reinstall again, just take a full old backup of your system databases and users databases and document special setting done at instance levels and statup options as well, SP's applied,etc.
In case want to follow downgrade directly should be better a case with Microsoft to solve this problem quickly.
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