In my travels around the ‘Interweb’ I came across the following post:
asking about running SQL Server 2008 R2 (Full edition) on SBS 2008. The response was:
Basically saying that Microsoft said it wouldn’t.
Hmmm…I thought, I wonder if that is in fact the case. I don’t see why it wouldn’t install. So I set about downloading the trial version and installing it. The result was:
that is certainly seems to install without an issue. You do initially have to make sure that you remove the SQL 2005 Express Management Studio but after that everything works exactly as expected.
Now I can say, at this stage, whether there are any actual issues with SQL Server 2008 R2 running on SBS 2008 because I haven’t been running it for that long but I am yet to see any.
Just in case anyone was wondering.
CIAOPS 