Old SIMS SQL Services

[enjay]

I've recently done the upgrade to 2005 Express and notice that the 2000 MSDE service is still running. Is this still needed for anything? I need to keep MSDE for other things, but can I safely stop the SIMS service, and - ideally - uninstall the SIMS MSDE database if it is still there?

[Jamman960]

I disabled it straight after the upgrade without any effect on the running of sims, havent bothered to uninstall it as yet though.

[enjay]

Are you using any of the older things like Nova-T4?

[PhilNeal]

Nothing in SIMS will use the older service after you have upgraded.

[Heebeejeebee]

I disabled it straight after the upgrade without any effect on the running of sims, havent bothered to uninstall it as yet though.

Me too with no problems.

A heads up on something I forgot to check though - if you automate backups of the database by batch file make sure you now backup the new databases and not the old ones as I did for a week or so. D'oh

HBJB

[Oops_my_bad]

Same here - using Nova T4 as well.

I disabled the SQL2000 service initially but later just removed all trace of it. Only hangover was some redirector service which didnt work properly anyway - just ended up modifying the connect.ini file.