Upgrade to R12 with sqlexpress already installed

[adelgadom]

Hi,

I'm trying to upgrade a R11.5 SP4 installation to R12 SP1.

The R11 installation is using a database on a SQLSERVER Express 2005, with an instance named BLABLA.

When running the R12 setup, if I choose to use SQLExpress it gives me a warning about loosing the old ASDB database, and about creating a new instance called ARCSERVE_DB.

In case I choose to use a SQL Server Database, it detects my server/instance where the R11.5 database exists, but says it's a SQL Express instance, and to choose another server/instance or go back and select SQLExpress.

Does anybody knows how to upgrade from R11.5 to R12 and use an already existing SQLExpress instance that is not named ARCSERVE_DB?

Thanks,

Alex.

 

[davidmichel]

11.5 was coded not to accept MS SQL Express as the database so the 12.0 install will not use it for upgrade.

Do a new install then either merge in old tapes or do a recover.