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Can you run QA directly? Did you install SP3a on your client tools?

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David Gugick
Imceda Software

Peter (Peter@discussions.microsoft.com) writes:
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Something appears to be broken with your installation. Did you apply
SP3a?

I do remember that I had problems starting QA on my machine when it was
new. Our sysadmin gave me a ghoest box with the SQL Server tools installed.
Let's see, it was when I added the server parts, including SP3a, that
things broke down. I don't remember if I was able to run Enterprise Manager
- I don't use EM very often - but I recall that command-line OSQL also
failed to work. OSQL eventually gave up with a funny error message. QA
just never opened, it was there in Task Manager, but was never brought
to life.

I was able to get everything to work eventually, although I don't really
remember how. Probably I uninstalled SQL Server entirely, and then re-
installed. Notice that if you do this, you will not lose your databases,
but it is a good idea to take a backup before you reinstall.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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