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Upgrading from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 R2 – Fails if default data folder doesn’t exist

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Upgrading from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008 R2 – Fails if default data folder doesn’t exist

This might apply to other upgrades as well but I would this today. If the default data and log directories don’t exist then the upgrade fails. The reason is that the upgrade tries to create a database in the default locations and that fails and so your...(read more)

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tags: setup, SQL Server 2008 R2

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