I am trying to upgrade an existing installation of SQL Server 2008 Enterprise
Edition to the latest SQL Server R2 November CTP and it fails. The upgrade
fails during the system checks and includes an error message "the specified
edition upgrade is not supported". The upgrade documentation indicates that
this is a valid upgrade path but it does not work. I tried to do the upgrade
from the command prompt and it also failed. The command prompt upgrade
command I used is shown below:

d:\Setup.exe /q /ACTION=Upgrade /INSTANCENAME=INST2008 pid="SQL Server
Enterprise Evaluation" /IAcceptSQLServerLicenseTerms

The messages returned from this command were:

Microsoft (R) SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup 10.50.1352.12 Copyright (c) Microsoft
Corporation. All rights reserved. The following error occurred: The specified
edition upgrade is not supported. For information about supported upgrade
paths, see the SQL Server 2008 version and edition upgrade matrix in Boo ks
Online. Error result: -2067922414 Result facility code: 1214 Result error
code: 530 Please review the summary.txt log for further details.

Please advise.

Thanks!

Chris

Cgallelli (cgallelli (AT) newsgroups (DOT) nospam) writes:
Books Online says that you upgrade from Enterprise 2008 to
Enterprise or Datascentre 2008. However, you cannot upgrade to
Enterprise Evaluation, which is what you are trying to do.

I don't know if it is possible to install Enterprise Edition of the
Nov CTP. In any case, I would not recommend trying to upgrade an
existing instance to a beta version. There is no guarantee that there
will be an upgrade path from the CTP to RTM.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se

Links for SQL Server Books Online:
SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx
SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx
SQL 2000: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinf...ons/books.mspx