We installed a product called PortfolioCenter from Schwab Performance
Tachnologies on our Windows 2000 Advanced Server last year. It came with
SQL 2000 SP4 (using a named instance).

We later installed Act 2006, which saw that we had SQL 2000 already
installed. It added an instance, and also somehow it downgraded our SQL
2000 version to SP3 for the PortfolioCenter named instance. I think. I
don't know if installing Act 2006 reinstalled all of the SQL 2000 code on
the system, in all of the BINN folders, or what.

(All of the BINN folders have SQL-related DLLs with 12/17/2002 dates on
them.)

Questions: Can you have 2 named instances of SQL 2000 at different service
pack levels? I suspect the answer is NO, but I could be wrong.

Can I install SP4 on the server now? Maybe just for the PortfolioCenter
instance? I don't want to break Act 2006; Act says it doesn't support SP4
on SQL 2000. Which I also don't really believe, but who knows.

I can send commands to the SQL instance that PortfolioCenter installed, and
that instance tells me that it's version 8.00.760, SP3. (I can't send a
command to the Act instance of SQL 2000, because it doesn't come with a
known SQL userid and password, and integrated auth doesn't work.)

I think you have to be able to supply a userid and password for each named
instance of SQL 2000, so that the service pack installation process can
update the tables. Along with the code. Right?

I don't know if I want to upgrade Act 2006 to SP4 -- probably not -- but I
want the PortfolioCenter instance back to SP4, which is what they
recommend.

Can anyone lessen my confusion here?

Thanks.

David Walker

Hello David,

Per your qeustion, you shall be able to install different named instances
with different service pack level. You could upgrade only one instance to
SP4 and leave another instance SP3 for your situation. Also, usually it
shall not downgrade a instance from SP4 to SP3 when installing another SP3
on another instance. I suspect it might be some issue of the custom sql
setup program included in third party application.

If anything is unclear or you have any questions, please feel free to let
me know. Thank you.

Best Regards,

Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Community Support
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petery@online.microsoft.com (Peter Yang [MSFT]) wrote in
news:PGKBQHuWHHA.4020@TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl:

> Hello David,
>
> Per your qeustion, you shall be able to install different named
> instances with different service pack level. You could upgrade only
> one instance to SP4 and leave another instance SP3 for your situation.
> Also, usually it shall not downgrade a instance from SP4 to SP3 when
> installing another SP3 on another instance. I suspect it might be some
> issue of the custom sql setup program included in third party
> application.
>
> If anything is unclear or you have any questions, please feel free to
> let me know. Thank you.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Peter Yang
> MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
> Microsoft Online Community Support
> ==================================================

Thanks for the reply. I suspect that something in the Act 2006
installation is what downgraded the SP level on our other named instance
from SP4 to SP3.

I will probably reinstall SP4 on the instance that should be at SP4.

Thanks again.

David Walker

Hello David,

My pleasure. I agree that you may try to install SP4 on the instance that
shall be SP4 again. :-)

Best Regards,

Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Partner Support


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