Today I attempted to install SQL Server 2014 RTM as an upgrade to an existing instance of SQL Server 2008 R2. This existing instance doesn't contain any data that we want to preserve. It was installed by someone about a year ago who didn't know much about SQL Server but who had pretty good Windows Server experience. I also see remnants of a SQL Server 2008 install. When I tried to upgrade I ran into problem after problem with very vague error information in the logs. Another possible variable is I may not have all the local administrator rights as the domain admin might have turned off a few for security purposes. Tomorrow I will post exact error messages as I try yet again but I hoped to get a few opinions on whether it might be best for me to try to remove every trace of old Sql Server versions first and then try to do a brand new install. I realize this would probably mean hacking the registry (AFTER BACKING IT UP FIRST, OF COURSE). But, before I do that, can some of you weigh in on whether that is a good course of action? Before I even attempted an upgrade this morning I ran the upgrade advisor and other checks and everything came out with a clean bill of health. I do have .net 3.5 (a prereq) installed as well as 4.0 and 4.5. By †he end of the day I had stripped the features to install down to database engine, report services, and advanced tools. The only thing that id running is the reporting services service.I've never had problems installing SQL Server before. I will post specifics from logs tomorrow, as I mentioned, but should I start by uninstalling every trace of Sql server and installing 2014 RTM from scratch?Thanks.
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