A journey through database heaven & hell (and other stuff)
Archive for April 2010
Live from the conference call
Just 20 months after the release of SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2 (“Gemini”/”Kilimanjaro”) is today released to manufacturing…
The conference call featured Ted Kummert and Tom Casey of Microsoft.
Parallel Data Warehouse (project “Madison”) will be released later in the year.
The 6.3 Desktop Professional install will in some cases loop on the Microsoft Windows Installer 3.1 v2 and Microsoft XML 6.0, which are prerequisites for the install, when attempting to install on Windows 7. You get a continuous loop with the message
One or more of the installations required a reboot. Would you like to reboot now?
No matter how many times you reboot, it does not want to install.
The trick is to run the setup.exe program from the following installation location
Proclarity 6.3 setup.exe location
I'm a Business Intelligence Architect/Developer. I spend my working life moving data to and from SQL Server, Analysis Services, Sharepoint and the rest of the Microsoft Office / BI stack & thought I'd share some stuff with others who may or may not be interested...