All,

The earlier DBA has installed “SQLServer 2005 Developer Edition” on our
staging box instead of installing “SQLServer 2005 Enterprise Edition”. Before
I go about uninstalling the Developer edition and reinstalling the Enterprise
edition, I was wondering if there is a way to upgrade the existing
installation to Enterprise Edition without going through the whole nine
yards. Has anyone gone through this process before?

Thanks,
rgn

I found this in the Sept 2007 edition of BOL and it worked. Unfortunately it
is not in the RTM BOL that gets installed the first time we install SQLServer.

start /wait setup.exe ADDLOCAL=SQL_Engine INSTANCENAME=MSSQLSERVER
UPGRADE=SQL_Engine SKUUPGRADE=1 /qb

rgn

"rgn" wrote: