instalation mistake

I have made a mistake when I have installed SQL server.
I have installed Personal edition instead of standard edition.
How to change sql server edition from personal to standard if I have some
databases active?
AlesIf I were you, I would backup the DBs, uninstall personal and install
standard and then restore the DBs. Barring that, is it possible to run an
instance of standard side by side and transfer the DBs through a dump and
load? Unless you can upgrade editions(don't beleive you can), you are going
to ave to backup and restore anyway.
"Ales Baranek" wrote:

> I have made a mistake when I have installed SQL server.
> I have installed Personal edition instead of standard edition.
> How to change sql server edition from personal to standard if I have some
> databases active?
> Ales
>
>|||Hi,
It requires downtime.
(info from books online)
To upgrade a SQL Server 2000 installation to a different edition of SQL
Server 2000
1.. Insert the Microsoft SQL Server 2000T compact disc for the edition
you want to install into your CD-ROM drive. If the compact disc does not
autorun, double-click Autorun.exe in the root directory of the compact disc.
2.. Select SQL Server 2000 Components, select Install Database Server, and
then setup prepares the SQL Server Installation Wizard. At the Welcome
screen, click Next.
3.. In Computer Name dialog box, select Local Computer or Remote computer.
4.. In the Installation Selection dialog box, click Upgrade, Remove, or
Add Components to an existing instance of SQL Server, and then click Next.
5.. In the Instance Name dialog box, click Next.
6.. In the Existing Installation dialog box, click Upgrade your existing
installation, and then click Next.
7.. If Setup detects that you are doing an edition upgrade, the Upgrade
dialog box appears. Click Yes, Upgrade my <text specific to the upgrade> to
upgrade the feature set of your current installation, and click Next.
8.. After the upgrade is completed, you are prompted as to whether you
want to install additional components. If you click Yes, the Select
Components dialog box appears. Accept the defaults or select the additional
components you want to install, and then click Next.
You can select an item in the Components list, and then select items from
the related Sub-Components list. Click to select items you want to install;
clear the check box of the items you do not want to install.
9.. When you are finished specifying options, in the Start Copying Files
dialog box, click Next.
10.. In the Setup Complete dialog box, click Yes, I want to restart my
computer now, and then click Finish to complete the edition upgrade.
Thanks
Hari
SQL Server MVP
"Ales Baranek" <barda@.staryhrozenkov.cz> wrote in message
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>I have made a mistake when I have installed SQL server.
> I have installed Personal edition instead of standard edition.
> How to change sql server edition from personal to standard if I have some
> databases active?
> Ales
>|||And what about the databases?
SQL personal is with SP3 now and upgrade will be without any SP. I will have
to install this SP3 on the new standard edition. Does it affect databases?
Ales
"Hari Prasad" <hari_prasad_k@.hotmail.com> pe v diskusnm pspvku
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> Hi,
> It requires downtime.
> (info from books online)
> To upgrade a SQL Server 2000 installation to a different edition of SQL
> Server 2000
> 1.. Insert the Microsoft SQL Server 2000T compact disc for the edition
> you want to install into your CD-ROM drive. If the compact disc does not
> autorun, double-click Autorun.exe in the root directory of the compact
> disc.
>
> 2.. Select SQL Server 2000 Components, select Install Database Server,
> and then setup prepares the SQL Server Installation Wizard. At the Welcome
> screen, click Next.
>
> 3.. In Computer Name dialog box, select Local Computer or Remote
> computer.
>
> 4.. In the Installation Selection dialog box, click Upgrade, Remove, or
> Add Components to an existing instance of SQL Server, and then click Next.
>
> 5.. In the Instance Name dialog box, click Next.
>
> 6.. In the Existing Installation dialog box, click Upgrade your existing
> installation, and then click Next.
>
> 7.. If Setup detects that you are doing an edition upgrade, the Upgrade
> dialog box appears. Click Yes, Upgrade my <text specific to the upgrade>
> to upgrade the feature set of your current installation, and click Next.
>
> 8.. After the upgrade is completed, you are prompted as to whether you
> want to install additional components. If you click Yes, the Select
> Components dialog box appears. Accept the defaults or select the
> additional components you want to install, and then click Next.
> You can select an item in the Components list, and then select items from
> the related Sub-Components list. Click to select items you want to
> install; clear the check box of the items you do not want to install.
> 9.. When you are finished specifying options, in the Start Copying Files
> dialog box, click Next.
>
> 10.. In the Setup Complete dialog box, click Yes, I want to restart my
> computer now, and then click Finish to complete the edition upgrade.
> Thanks
> Hari
> SQL Server MVP
>
> "Ales Baranek" <barda@.staryhrozenkov.cz> wrote in message
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