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 Can SQL Server 7 be installed over SQL Server 2000?

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Posted - 2004-06-29 : 11:41:30
SortaNorth writes "I just completed a database modification for a client who claimed they were using SQL Server 2000. Turns out they actually are using SQL Server 7. Consequently they can't attach the database I just developed to their version 7. I thought my quickest option would be to install SQL Server 7 on my server and make the modifications in SQL Server 7, then send them the modified version. (Since I'm not confident the mods will work in SQL Server 7, I also need to do this to test it)

Problem is that I have SQL Server 2000 installed on my server and when I try to install SQL Server 7 on the same machine it won't install. It gives me the error message "Internal Error. Contact Microsoft Technical Support."

Should I expect it to be impossible(or very difficult) to install SQL Server on my server when I already have SQL Server 2000 installed? (I am using Windows 2000 Server.)

Thanks for any helpful suggestions."

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Posted - 2004-06-29 : 12:15:08
You must install SQL Server 7.0 first then SQL Server 2000. Since 2000 is already isntalled, you'll need to uninstall it then install 7.0 then install 2000 as a named instance.

Tara
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