Thanks for the reply.

The article is talking about MSDE RTM. Does the same apply to the more recent version?

The procedure is not really clear to me (as I do not want to scrap my installation once again!).

I will I differentiate my SQL Server from MSDE? (local) actually conect to SQL Server!


>>Hi
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>>I have some demos to do soon and I would like to have MSDE 2000 and SQL Server 2000 (developper edition) both installed on the same computer (yes there are some differences when you look at them from Visual Studio).
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>>I think I have already see a procedure to do it.
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>>Do you know how it can be done?
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>>Note: SQL Server is already installed.
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>Hi Eric,
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>You may find following article mskb #Q299351 BUG: MSDE Installation Fails on Systems That Have SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 1 or 2 Installed usefull.