Flood of SQL services

Hi,

I've just setup SQL Express 2005 SP2 on my fresh SBS 2003 R2 system. I never had anything to do with and have no idea about SQL, the only reason for updating from MSDE was the annoying and ugly event id 1000 relating to sharepoint services in my application log. There seems to be no working solution for that yet.

The point after upgrading to 2005 SP2 now is, that there is a total of seven services related to SQL running on my machine. They are named

MSSQL$SBSMONITORING

MSSQL$SHAREPOINT

SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS)

SQL Server VSS Writer

SQL Server-Browser

SQLAgent$SBSMONITORING

SQLAgent$Sharepoint

Especially the duplicate services regarding SBS-Monitoring and Sharepoint Services are eye-catchers to me. I thought updating to Express 2005 would trail existing databases - or at least asks you whether to do. And in control panel / software there are still two entries relating to MSDE as well.

Is that all alright? Could an SQL-MVP like me, who has no idea about SQL and hates software cadavers on his system, remove "old" MSDE without crashing the whole system?

Thanks in advance for a hint.

Regards,

Tim

By the way: at least after first reboot of the server there is everything "blue" in application log! :-))

hi,

you have to "uncheck" the "hide advanced configuration options" in the wizard as, by default, the setup package installs a named instance named "SQLExpress" as you can see from you "situation" as well..

if you uncheck that option, you can then specify the instance name and, in your case, you will select the already installed instance.. this will upgrade that instance to SQLExpress edition and not install a new one.. so, in the "Instance name" installation step, press the "Installed instances" button and all local installed instance will be listed... select the MSDE instance you like to upgrade and proceed..

in your scenario, you can eventually maintain the .\SQLExpress installed named instance and just uninstall the MSDE instance..

regards