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SQL Server – Upgrade fails – “The Instance ID ‘MSSQLSERVER’ is already in use by SQL Server instance ‘MSSQLSERVER.INACTIVE’.”

- by Manohar Punna - 4 Comments.

This is one of the very frequent errors we receive when we try to upgrade to 2008 or 2008 R2 or to that matter even to 2005. The upgrade may fail …

SQL Server – Upgrade fails – “The Instance ID ‘MSSQLSERVER’ is already in use by SQL Server instance ‘MSSQLSERVER.INACTIVE’.” Read More