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Serge
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44 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-09 : 10:36:53
Hi,

Is there are a way of changing the name of the locally installed SQL 2008 Express Server? I have downloaded Express version and want to play with it and see what its like. The only annoying thing so far I found is that I could not install full Adventure Works DB purely because my Full Text Search Deamon wasn't running. When I had a look at the services running it wasn't even listed, so I am a bit confused about the whole Express situation...

Thanks

tripodal
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

259 Posts

Posted - 2009-07-09 : 15:55:09
Full Test is a tottally seperate feature when you install SQL. I dont recall if it installs by default.

You can install multiple instanced of sql2008 and remove them later.

I have never tried to rename an instance, and I dont think I would.
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