{"id":413,"date":"2008-02-23T22:35:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T22:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/conor\/post\/grrr-installation-woes-with-SQL-2008-CTP56.aspx"},"modified":"2008-02-23T22:35:05","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T22:35:05","slug":"grrr-installation-woes-with-sql-2008-ctp56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/conor\/grrr-installation-woes-with-sql-2008-ctp56\/","title":{"rendered":"grrr&#8230; installation woes with SQL 2008 CTP5\/6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my dev box is in a bad state now &#8211; can&#8217;t install the new CTP and I had to start manually hacking on the old one.<\/p>\n<p>I may have to install SQL Server 2008 CTP 8 on a VM or on another machine.<\/p>\n<p>So, I apologize for delays in posting up examples to answer your questions.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson of the day is that one should just not trust installers anymore ;).<\/p>\n<p>Conor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my dev box is in a bad state now &#8211; can&#8217;t install the new CTP and I had to start manually hacking on the old one. 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