I am trying to rebuild my system databases in order to change the default collation on the server. I am attempting to do this against my local SQL Express instance in order to forestall any unforeseen issues when doing it on our enterprise instance. I am using the setup.exe from the SQL 2008 R2 installation media, as I was advised to do as a work around to another error I was getting.
This new attempt fails with an error that the specified SQL instance does not exist. However, it most certainly does exist, as it is the name of the server to which I connect through SQL Server Management Studio.
Below is the command I am running and the results that display on my command prompt. Note the useless advice to "Please review the summary.txt log for further details"; the summary.txt log only contains a message saying to review the summary.txt log - a rather circular analysis route.
I:\>setup.exe /QUIET /ACTION=REBUILDDATABASE /INSTANCENAME="ITS-LKPYRLA\SQLEXPRESS" /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS="vdfy\peterst" /SQLCOLLA
TION=Latin1_General_CI_AS
Microsoft (R) SQL Server 2008 R2 Setup 10.50.1600.01
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
The following error occurred:
Instance Name ITS-LKPYRLA\SQLEXPRESS for product Microsoft SQL Server doesn't exist. Specify a valid instance name.
Error result: -2068578302
Result facility code: 1204
Result error code: 2
Please review the summary.txt log for further details
Any help is, of course, greatly appreciated.