012-12-04 10:16:11.54 spid5s      Starting u_Tables.SQL at  04 Dec 2012 10:16:11:543
2012-12-04 10:16:11.54 spid5s      This file creates all the system tables in master.
2012-12-04 10:16:11.55 spid5s      drop view spt_values ....
2012-12-04 10:16:11.58 spid5s      Creating view 'spt_values'.
2012-12-04 10:16:11.69 spid5s      drop table spt_monitor ....
2012-12-04 10:16:11.70 spid5s      Creating 'spt_monitor'.
2012-12-04 10:16:11.72 spid5s      Grant Select on spt_monitor
2012-12-04 10:16:11.73 spid5s      Insert into spt_monitor ....
2012-12-04 10:16:11.75 spid5s      Error: 25641, Severity: 16, State: 0.
2012-12-04 10:16:11.75 spid5s      For target, "package0.event_file", the parameter "filename" passed is invalid. Target parameter at index 0 is invalid
2012-12-04 10:16:11.75 spid5s      Error: 912, Severity: 21, State: 2.
2012-12-04 10:16:11.75 spid5s      Script level upgrade for database 'master' failed because upgrade step 'u_tables.sql' encountered error 25641, state 0, severity 16. This is a serious error condition which might interfere with regular operation and the database will be taken offline. If the error happened during upgrade of the 'master' database, it will prevent the entire SQL Server instance from starting. Examine the previous errorlog entries for errors, take the appropriate corrective actions and re-start the database so that the script upgrade steps run to completion.
2012-12-04 10:16:11.76 spid5s      Error: 3417, Severity: 21, State: 3.
2012-12-04 10:16:11.76 spid5s      Cannot recover the master database. SQL Server is unable to run. Restore master from a full backup, repair it, or rebuild it. For more information about how to rebuild the master database, see SQL Server Books Online.

Any suggestions what can be done? - Im am able to start the service with net start mssql$sql2012 /t902 and when starting it without /t902, i get 3547 Error.

We have purchased a Sql Server 2012 license. How can I download the installation media? Only download I found was the evaluation copy. Should I download this, install it and update the license?

This morning I requested a number of hotfixes for SQL Server 2012 SP2 CU 3 & 4, but none of the links appear to be working.  Whether I use proxy or not, I am getting Page Not Found or timeout for 134.170.185.70.  I have already tried IE 11 and Google Chrome to no avail.

Going to outside DNS Lookup websites, it appears the website is down for everybody and not just me.

Here's one of the links currently not working:

http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/SQL%20Server%202012/sp2/SQLServer2012_SP2_CU4_3007556_11_0_5569_/11.0.5569.0/free/481684_intl_x64_zip.exe

Can anybody else confirm if there's an issue with the website?

Diane

Hello,

I am trying to upgrade the SQL 2008R2 Servers to SP3 in my environment. Would like to do this silently via SCCM.

Have tried some reference links, one of the link is : 

https://slecluyse.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/sql-server-2008-r2-upgrading-to-service-pack-1-silently/

But following this give an error :

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Please advise how could i create a silent upgrade package for SP3 to be deployed via SCCM.

Hi

i need to create a lab with this scenario: 

windows server 2008r2 + sql 2005 + sql 2008 + sql 2012

**this is for lab testing purposes**

i need this because some of our clients use this weird scenario 

is there any special install instructions to make this work? or just install the default one version after another starting from 2005?

Thanks!

Guy

Hello,

Is it possible to downgrade SQL 2012 Business intelligence server to Standard?

hi,

we have tried to deploy the SQL Server 2012 to our development machines with SCCM 2012 without success.

Commandline parameters or Configuration.ini in either case the installation failed without any useful errorlog.

Exists any howto which covers this scenario?

regards

genne

Hi All,

Can anyone shed some light on this? I've been searching answer on the web but with no luck. basically i got the following error in the sql error log while i was trying to intall SQL Server 2008 R2 Express.

2012-01-03 11:58:26.26 spid7s      Starting up database 'master'.
2012-01-03 11:58:26.28 spid7s      Error: 5178, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2012-01-03 11:58:26.28 spid7s      Cannot use file 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.QSRNVIVO9\MSSQL\Template Data\master.mdf' because it was originally formatted with sector size 4096 and is now on a volume with sector size 3072. Move the file to a volume with a sector size that is the same as or smaller than the original sector size.
2012-01-03 11:58:26.28 spid7s      Error: 5178, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2012-01-03 11:58:26.28 spid7s      Cannot use file 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.QSRNVIVO9\MSSQL\Template Data\master.mdf' because it was originally formatted with sector size 4096 and is now on a volume with sector size 3072. Move the file to a volume with a sector size that is the same as or smaller than the original sector size.
2012-01-03 11:58:26.30 spid7s      Error: 5178, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2012-01-03 11:58:26.30 spid7s      Cannot use file 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.QSRNVIVO9\MSSQL\Template Data\mastlog.ldf' because it was originally formatted with sector size 4096 and is now on a volume with sector size 3072. Move the file to a volume with a sector size that is the same as or smaller than the original sector size.
2012-01-03 11:58:26.30 spid7s      Error: 5178, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2012-01-03 11:58:26.30 spid7s      Cannot use file 'c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.QSRNVIVO9\MSSQL\Template Data\mastlog.ldf' because it was originally formatted with sector size 4096 and is now on a volume with sector size 3072. Move the file to a volume with a sector size that is the same as or smaller than the original sector size.

Below is some details about the machine.

Machine processor count:       2
  OS version:                    Windows Vista Home Premium
  OS service pack:               Service Pack 2
  OS region:                     United States
  OS language:                   German
  OS architecture:               x86
  Process architecture:          32 Bit
  OS clustered:                  No

C drive has 200GB+ free space and is formatted with 'Allocation unit size' = 4096 bytes

Also, chkdsk initially found a file system problem but it had been fixed by running the 'chkdsk /F' command.

Thanks,

Kevin

Login failed for user 'CS\XXXXXXXXXXX'. Reason: Server is in script upgrade mode. Only administrator can connect at this time. [CLIENT: <local machine>]
Clearing tempdb database.

Bits:

• Windows 2003 Server Std SP2
• SQL Server 2008 SP3

SQL Server has been running without issue.  Installed on another SS2K8 SP3 and worked fine.

Any assistance would be appreciated as this issue is causing problems for my user applications.

Thank You

Mark Covian

We supply our software package that also includes the unattended installation (with /QS and so on) of SQL Server R2 Express (with SP2).
The setup works good in about 99.9% cases, but one customer complained that after the "successful SQL Sever installation (at least, it looked so!) he could not open the supplied database getting some strange error messages...

After some months of trial-n-error attempts we are now able to reproduce the problems this custumer had. But we cannot find the reason of the problem.

So the test computer is a virtual machine with Windows 7 + sp1 32-bit.
Among the programs/tools installed on this machine there were (in the following order):
SQL Server 2008 Express - the default SQLEXPRESS instance
SSMS
VS 2010 Pro (German)
SQL Server 2008 Express R2 (with SP 1 or SP2 - ?) - the default SQLEXPRESS instance
Then some of them were uninstalled in the following order:
SQL Server 2008 Express
SSMS
SQL Server 2008 Express R2 

Now we tried to install (in normal mode with UI) the SQL Server 2008 Express R2 with SP2.
When we chose the default SQLEXPRESS instance - it failed with the following info:

Configuration status: Failed: see details below
Configuration error code: 0x7FCCE689
Configuration error description: External component has thrown an exception.

and the Detail.txt file contained the following:

2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: External component has thrown an exception.
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: The configuration failure category of current exception is	ConfigurationValidationFailure
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Configuration action failed for feature	SQL_Engine_Core_Inst during timing Validation and scenario Validation.
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException	(0x80004005): External component has thrown an exception.
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: at SSisDefaultInstance(UInt16* , Int32* )
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: at	Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SniServer.NLRegSWrapper.NLregSNativeMethod	Wrapper.SSIsDefaultInstanceName(String sInstanceName, Boolean&	pfIsDefaultInstance)
....
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Exception:	System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException.
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Source:	Microsoft.SqlServer.Configuration.SniServerConfigExt.
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Message: External component has thrown an exception..
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Watson Bucket 1	Original Parameter Values
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Parameter 0 : SQL Server 2008 R2@RTM@
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Parameter 1 : SSisDefaultInstance
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Parameter 2 : SSisDefaultInstance
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Parameter 3 :	System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException@-2147467259
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Parameter 4 :	System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException@-2147467259
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Parameter 5 : SniServerConfigAction_Install_atValidation
2015-01-20 10:44:09 Slp: Parameter 6 :	INSTALL@VALIDATION@SQL_ENGINE_CORE_INST

When we chose some other instance name then the installation has completed successfully.

So the questions are:

1. What could be the reason of the problem (and only for SQLEXPRESS instance that was earlier installed and then uninstalled)? I will provide the complete Detail.txt file if needed. 
2. How could we check (if we could) the conditions so some name would be allowed as an instance name for SQL Server installer to success?

With the best regards,

Victor

Victor Nijegorodov

I have a computer running SQL 2008 R2 Developer Edition(Sp2). I am trying to patch with Sp3. However even though the SQL instances are currently running fine and when I run select @@version from an active instance I get the following:

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (SP2) - 10.50.4000.0 (X64)
 Jun 28 2012 08:36:30
 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
 Developer Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor)

However when I attempt to apply SP3 to the server I get the following:

TITLE: SQL Server Setup failure.
------------------------------

SQL Server Setup has encountered the following error:

There are no applicable SQL Server instances to patch. Setup cannot continue.

Error code 0x84B20001.

I run the SQL discovery report from setup and it discovers all the shared components but none of the SQL Engine installs. I need to patch the server. Anyone ever run into this issue. Does anyone know what the discovery report looks at to discover what is installed on the machine?

Thanks in advance....

Dear all,

As part of our Desktop client application, we need to have SQL server express 2012-2014 installed before we proceed with our application install.

So far I am installing SQL server manually and it start to be quite long if you do it many time in different customer.

IN order to get the whole installation smoother I would like to be able to run the SQL server setup in unattended mode as part of my main install.

Is this possible.

If yes could you guide me how ?

I browse different place on the web, but could not find clear easy process for the basic component install and login id.

regards

I have Windows SQL server 2012 RS and can not get my Epson Scanner to connect.  I know that Epson does not have a driver for this OS but wondered if there was some type of work around for me to be able to use my scanner.

thanks!

Brianna

Hello,

I have SQL 2008R2 Enterprise and SQL 2012 Express installed on my laptop, MAC BooksPro, where I'm using a parallel desktop with Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit. The 12 Gb RAM and 256 Gb hard drive allocated to the parallel desktop that should be enough. I did all previous SQL Server installation there without a problem.

I installed Visual Studio Ultimate and to use the BI (Reporting) there I'd need to install  the ad-on SSDTBI_x86_ENU. But, it didn't go through due to it's stuck on Global Rules passing 4 of 9 up to the "Windows Management Instrumentation (WM) service and sitting on the "Consistency Validation for SQL Server registry keys". I thought it was because I'd need to have the SQL 2014 Express first but when I tried to install it there was the same Global Rules sticking on the same place forever. Then, I tried the full trial version of SQL 2014 and it's the same problem with the global Rules on the same place.

Please, advise how could I make it go through the Global Rules passing the "Consistency Validation for SQL Server registry keys" and others.

Thanks

Everytime I attempt to install SP4 on my Server 2003 system it states it goes through successfully but when I reboot it hasn't done anything.

Summary Log states all is successful for version 9.00.5000.00 (0 Errors, SQL Support: Passed, Summary: Successful)

after reboot or even before the sqlserver.exe shows its still version 9.00.4262.00 and still shows up in Microsoft updates and doesn't show the install at all in Add/Remove Programs

I'm at a complete loss on what to do.. I've tried the RTM download and the Auto Update method both with same results.  Tried shutting down all services in relation as well.  I'm lost

Hi,

I am getting error while installing SQL server 2012 on Windows 8 Version 6.2 (Build 9200). Please go through the attachment.

As part of troubleshooting i updated and repaired .net frame, but still getting same error.

Please help me.

Hi,

I'm manually applying the Security Update for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 (KB2977320). The progress bar never gets off it's start point.  30 minutes after pressing the Install Button, I check the Windows update log and see the following :-

2015-02-01        22:45:55:191         460        11dc        AU        #############

2015-02-01        22:45:55:191         460        11dc        AU        ## START ##  AU: Install updates

2015-02-01        22:45:55:191         460        11dc        AU        #########

2015-02-01        22:45:55:194         460        11dc        AU         # Initiating manual install

2015-02-01        22:45:55:194         460        11dc        AU         # Approved updates = 1

2015-02-01        22:45:55:195         460        11dc        AU        <<## SUBMITTED ## AU: Install updates / installing updates [CallId = {F9E58F4D-8CCB-4BAE-96BF-7CBB619ED4EC}]

2015-02-01        22:45:55:195         460        13a8        Agent        *************

2015-02-01        22:45:55:195         460        13a8        Agent        ** START **  Agent: Installing updates [CallerId = AutomaticUpdates]

2015-02-01        22:45:55:195         460        13a8        Agent        *********

2015-02-01        22:45:55:195         460        13a8        Agent         * Updates to install = 1

2015-02-01        22:45:55:198         460        13a8        Agent         *   Title = Security Update for SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 (KB2977320)

2015-02-01        22:45:55:198         460        13a8        Agent         *   UpdateId = {285B2EA3-C342-47E9-97B0-65D68C13F3BD}.200

2015-02-01        22:45:55:198         460        13a8        Agent         *     Bundles 1 updates:

2015-02-01        22:45:55:198         460        13a8        Agent         *       {1B81973B-445B-4B03-A5AB-83D97845CA42}.200

2015-02-01        22:45:55:201         460        13a8        Agent        WARNING: failed to calculate prior restore point time with error 0x80070002; setting restore point

2015-02-01        22:45:55:202         460        13a8        Agent        WARNING: LoadLibrary failed for srclient.dll with hr:8007007e

2015-02-01        22:45:55:202         460        13a8        Handler        Attempting to create remote handler process as <xxxxxxxx>  in session 2

2015-02-01        22:45:55:203         460        11dc        AU        Getting featured update notifications.  fIncludeDismissed = true

2015-02-01        22:45:55:203         460        11dc        AU        No featured updates available.

2015-02-01        22:45:55:208         460        11dc        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:45:55:628         460        13a8        DnldMgr        Preparing update for install, updateId = {1B81973B-445B-4B03-A5AB-83D97845CA42}.200.

2015-02-01        22:45:56:216         460        16a0        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:45:57:198         460        16a0        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:45:57:230         460        16a0        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:45:58:244         460        11dc        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:45:59:212         460        16a0        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:45:59:257         460        16a0        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:46:00:270         460        11dc        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:46:01:221         460        16a0        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:46:01:284         460        16a0        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:46:01:317        3424        1e0        Misc        =========== Logging initialized (build: 7.6.7600.256, tz: -0000)  ===========

2015-02-01        22:46:01:317        3424        1e0        Misc         = Process: C:\Windows\system32\wuauclt.exe

2015-02-01        22:46:01:317        3424        1e0        Misc         = Module: C:\Windows\system32\wuaueng.dll

2015-02-01        22:46:01:307        3424        1e0        Handler        :::::::::::::

2015-02-01        22:46:01:317        3424        1e0        Handler        :: START ::  Handler: Command Line Install

2015-02-01        22:46:01:317        3424        1e0        Handler        :::::::::

2015-02-01        22:46:01:317        3424        1e0        Handler         : Updates to install = 1

2015-02-01        22:46:02:339         460        11dc        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:46:03:235         460        16a0        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:46:03:313         460        16a0        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:46:04:327         460        11dc        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent complete to 100

2015-02-01        22:46:05:246         460        11dc        AU        All updates already downloaded, setting percent    ......

The log is full of these messages and the update process appears to be looping.

I can of course stop the installation but then SQL returns the following message when a login is attempted :-

Login failed for user 'sql_agent_user'. Reason: Server is in script upgrade mode. Only administrator can connect at this time.

Can anyone help please ?

Thanks

Richard

Hi All,

I have a server  with two sql server instances and 32 CPU in which I have to give 16 CPU - 16 CPU  to each SQL instance.

each CPU has both processor Affinity and I/O affinity.

As per Microsoft we should not assign both processor Affinity and I/O affinity to the same CPU.

What would be the best practice in My case??

I am using SQL Server 2014 SE on Windows server 2012.

aa