Upgrading 2008 to 2008 R2

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Upgrading 2008 to 2008 R2

Rod at work

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August 6, 2010 at 2:41 pm

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I've got SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition installed on my development box. How hard is it to upgrade it to SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition?
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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 1

Haven't tried that yet. Have you upgraded yet? Any problems?

Rod at work SSC-Dedicated Points: 34005 More actions · Answer 2

No, I haven't tried upgrading yet.

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ramam Old Hand Points: 302 More actions · Answer 3

I just tried - that's how I found this thread 🙂

Failed. It rejects my license key (right off the ss2k8 dev edition box). I've tried upgrading to evaluation but that's not supported. Not sure if it's my issue - I'm running on XP fully patched... love to hear any advice as I'm doing this as a first pass at upgrading production (standard edition) ... not a great start!!

SQL ORACLE One Orange Chip Points: 27807 More actions · Answer 4

May the following link help

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677622.aspx

ramam Old Hand Points: 302 More actions · Answer 5

Thanks but I started there before I even downloaded the upgrade advisor - that's just the main upgrade learning launch point. My primary issue is that it doesn't recognize my license or otherwise that R2 developer edition is not for sale (I don't have 'assurance' on my dev license ... if it is needed then they should be selling R2 developer which I can't find).

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736128 More actions · Answer 6

http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?edc=2151638&cm_mmc=ShoppingFeeds-_-GoogleBase-_-Software-_-2151638_Microsoft%20SQL%20Server%202008%20R2%20Developer%20Edition%20-%20complete%20pa_MIC-E32-00816

The license key from SS2K8 shouldn't work. You'd need a new one,

ramam Old Hand Points: 302 More actions · Answer 7

Thanks! Somehow I only checked Amazon and Microsoft's store and didn't find it at either.