I have been running SQL Server 2005 Express Management Studio (‘SSMSE’), and I now have a need to install the full version of Management Studio (‘SSMS’). This is a known hassle, but I’ve not found a comprehensive way to carry it out.
At first, I uninstalled SSMSE, and then ran SqlRun_Tools.msi to install the toolset. I got this error message:
A component that you have specified in the ADD_LOCAL property is already installed. To upgrade the existing component, refer to the template.ini and set the UPGRADE property to the name of the component. I had no idea what template.ini was. So I looked around, and decided to uninstall the rest of the minimal installation of SQL Server 2005 Express on my computer by following Microsoft’s advice in KB 909967, ‘How to uninstall an instance of SQL Server 2005 manually.’ That bit was very successful.
But when I attempted to run SqlRun_Tools.msi again, I faced this mess when the installer was ‘Preparing Installation Wizard’:
The setup has encountered an unexpected error in datastore. The action is SetDialogs. The error is : Source File Name: ...\datastorecachexmlschema.cpp **** Compiler Timestamp: Fri Jul 29 01:13:50 2005 **** Function Name: DataStoreCacheXMLSchema::initScopeRecord*****Sour... (but replace the asterisks with box chars, which were probably CR-LF’s in the original message)
This is very frustrating. Does anybody have any advice for installing the full version of SSMS over top of SSMSE? Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated!
I have also installed SQL Management Studio before just using the
SqlRun_Tools.msipackage without any problems but I think if you have previously had any other SQL Server 2005 components installed then you will need to install the Setup Support Files first as this is probably what sets up the component installation sequence. This can be done either by installing from the SQL Server installation media or by running thesqlsupport.msifile as described in the Microsoft KB article.