My computer lies to me

Remember how I blogged a while back that my computer laughs at me? Well, it lies to me as well.

Bored of the usual methods of inflicting torture upon myself, I thought I would upgrade SQL Server 2008 R2 to SQL Server 2014 (stop laughing at the back!), because, erm, well it seemed like a good idea at the time.

First problem was that in order to upgrade, I had to apply service pack 2 to my existing SQL Server 2008 R2 installation. Why? No idea. I would have thought that if I were about to upgrade, it should have all of the later goodness in the upgrade, but who am I to question the ways of the wise?

So, I downloaded SP2 and set it going. Part way through, I got an unhandled .NET exception (nice one Microsoft, very professional), and when I clicked Quit, it continued with the installation! Still, as it seemed to work, I didn’t complain, but I was a bit annoyed that it lied to me. Computers aren’t supposed to do that.

Once I had SQL Server 2014 installed, I happened to notice that SQL Server 2008 R2 was still installed. Huh, I thought we upgraded to 2014? Shouldn’t it have uninstalled 2008 R2? Well, I would have thought so too, but that just shows how much we know eh? If you have Visual Studio 2013 installed, you may well have SQL Server 2012 installed as well! Good job disk space is cheap nowadays.

Having asked about this in an SQL Server forum, I was told it was safe to uninstall anything related to SQL Server 2008 R2. Whilst doing so, I came across one component that gave me a message saying that SSMS 2014 depended on it, and if I uninstalled it, that would stop working. I clicked “No” to say I didn’t want to uninstall this component, but it uninstalled it anyway! Didn’t seem to matter, as SQL Server worked fine afterwards, so it just shows what liars they are!

I’m very disillusioned. No wonder the world is sinking into moral decay if you can’t even rely on your computer to tell you the truth!

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