Upgrade 2008 r2 express w advanced tools to developer

  • I would like to upgrade my free 2008 r2 with advanced tools to the 2008 r2 developer edition. I understand there is a cost involved but need to know the correct procedure in order to purchase and upgrade this.

    Thanks!!

    🙂

  • am I in the wrong forum for this? I expected some guru to reply on this simple thing.

  • R_Casey (9/21/2012)


    I would like to upgrade my free 2008 r2 with advanced tools to the 2008 r2 developer edition. I understand there is a cost involved but need to know the correct procedure in order to purchase and upgrade this.

    Thanks!!

    🙂

    Gee whiz you waited a whole 47 minutes before complaining.

    Might find it difficult to find a Developer Edition of 2008 R2 - Amazon reports out of stock ...

    I did something similar all it took was I copied the db and log files to the Developer Edition's file location for same and then using SSMS attached. It worked for me -

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • Thank you and I apologize if I seemed "over eager". I did not see a reply for a couple of days so I guess it got lost in the bit bucket.

    I too have seen that r2 developers kit is unavailable and am wondering if I just byte the bullet and go to 2012 developer. any thoughts on that? I wanted to stay in R2 because I am studying for MCTS in R2..

    Thanks!!

  • For which exam are you studying?

    If it's developer or dba, you can practise your 2008R2 skills on a 2012 machine.

    Just ignore all the new stuff 🙂

    If it's BI, it will be a bit more trickier as SSIS has changed a lot, and SSAS has gotten an extra development model. However, if you stick to SSAS multidimensional, it's almost exactly the same as in 2008R2.

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