Posted by John Bell on 10/27/28 11:36

Hi

I have not seen anything that says you can update to the trial versions. It
may be possible to install a separate instance or onto a new machine.

John

"Rich" <rsa@aspectgroup.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1136484643.641762.255710@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I'm having problems upgrading to 2005 Trial from 2000 Standard Edition.
>
> Despite the ms docs saying this was a valid upgrade path and running
> the upgrade advisor which did not highlight a non-valid upgrade path, I
> am getting the following error :-
>
> Name: Microsoft SQL Server 2000
> Reason: Your upgrade is blocked. ......
>
> Edition check:
> Your upgrade is blocked because of edition upgrade rules. ......
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Richard.
>

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