| Roger Wolter[MSFT] 2006-03-06, 7:16 pm |
| You would need to run the setup for Standard Edition to do the upgrade.
Standard includes quite a bit more software than Express so changing the
license would leave you with only a partial version of standard.
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"mbell" <mbell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> We've been using mysql and are excited to look into the sql express
> edition
> as a replacement. We would be implementing SQL Express in a production
> environment of small startup. My question:
>
> If the company succeeds and begins to outgrow the size and memory
> limitations of the Express edition what is process to upgrade the database
> to
> the Standard edition? Is it just as simple as adding the license info?
> Or
> would we need to reinstall using the Standard edition? I apologize if
> this
> topic has been covered I could not find it. I hope there is an easy way
> for
> us to upgrade from express to workgroup or standard without any downtime.
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