The Instance Name Spacified Is Invalid. @ Installing MSDE [URGENT]!!
Oct 3, 2004
Hi all;
I tried to install the MSDE on my machine.
I clicked on the setup.exe file which is located in C:sql2ksp3MSDE directory , then the following Error message appear to me:
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Microsoft SQL Sever Desktop Engine
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The instance name spacified is invalid.
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What is the solution??
FYI:
I am using:
MS Visual Studio.NET 2003
MS Windows XP SP1a
MS SQL Server 2000
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Nov 9, 2006
Thanks in advance.
I installed SQL 2000 Client Portion in my local computer: No server functionality. I selected my computer name as an instance name. Installation went OK.
Now, I am trying to install MSDE in my computer. Error comes in early part of installation: It says, "The instance name specified is not valid"
Please, any advise and suggestion.
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Hi All,
I'm trying (and have been for ages) to install a MSDE server with a
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system tray but the white circle is completely empty. It says
that it is not connected.
If i install with the default instance name then all seems to work fine.
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong and what I can do to fix this problem?
Thanks in advance for any help!
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After a short period of time where the status bar shows about 9 seconds left the status bar runs backwards down to zero and installation stops.
No error message, no crashes, just packs up its tent and goes away.
I have tried running setup from a batch file with the same results.
I have turned off my antivirus program as well as all other programs.
Need Input! - Thanks - T.C.
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NULL
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Hi, are days that i'm trying to install MSDE on my computer (windows XP service pack 1).
The problem is that when I run the setup program from console using SAPWD="(Some password)" SecurityMode=SQL, it fails with that error log:
-------- LOG START
2003-08-15 17:56:13.12 server Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)
Dec 17 2002 14:22:05
Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation
Desktop Engine on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 1)
2003-08-15 17:56:13.12 server Copyright (C) 1988-2002 Microsoft Corporation.
2003-08-15 17:56:13.12 server All rights reserved.
2003-08-15 17:56:13.12 server Server Process ID is 3076.
2003-08-15 17:56:13.12 server Logging SQL Server messages in file 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLLOGERRORLOG'.
2003-08-15 17:56:13.14 server SQL Server is starting at priority class 'normal'(1 CPU detected).
2003-08-15 17:56:13.18 server SQL Server configured for thread mode processing.
2003-08-15 17:56:13.21 server Using dynamic lock allocation. [500] Lock Blocks, [1000] Lock Owner Blocks.
2003-08-15 17:56:13.29 spid3 Warning ******************
2003-08-15 17:56:13.29 spid3 SQL Server started in single user mode. Updates allowed to system catalogs.
2003-08-15 17:56:13.87 spid3 Starting up database 'master'.
2003-08-15 17:56:15.76 server Using 'SSNETLIB.DLL' version '8.0.766'.
2003-08-15 17:56:15.76 spid5 Starting up database 'model'.
2003-08-15 17:56:15.87 spid3 Server name is 'ALEX'.
2003-08-15 17:56:15.87 spid3 Skipping startup of clean database id 5
2003-08-15 17:56:15.87 spid3 Skipping startup of clean database id 6
2003-08-15 17:56:15.87 spid3 Starting up database 'msdb'.
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2003-08-15 17:56:18.70 server SQL server listening on Shared Memory.
2003-08-15 17:56:18.70 server SQL Server is ready for client connections
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2003-08-15 17:56:22.56 spid3 Recovery complete.
2003-08-15 17:56:22.56 spid3 SQL global counter collection task is created.
2003-08-15 17:56:22.93 spid3 Warning: override, autoexec procedures skipped.
2003-08-15 17:56:36.48 spid3 SQL Server is terminating due to 'stop' request from Service Control Manager.
-------- LOG END
if anybody can help, I would really appreciate!
Alex.
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E-Mail: poolstar_uk@hotmail.com
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(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
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Sorry if this seems to be very basic question. But after 5 hours I am thinking may be I am missing something.
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I set it up with the with the same parameters using an .ini file, I used Notepad to create a file named MyParameters.ini with these contents:
[Options]
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TARGETDIR="D:MSDE"
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Hi,
(After having extracted SQL2kdesksp3.exe, and opened a command promt, navigate to the MSDE subdirectory.)
When I enter the "Type Setup SAPWD=(Some password) SecurityMode=SQL" command line, I have an error message : "The instance name specified is invalid".
Can someone explain why this happen?
Thanks a lot for the answers.
Bye.
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