I had successfully installed sql server 2008 Developer edition on a win7 pro workstation about a year ago. I has been running fine for the last year (locally and running .Net 4.5 framework). All services (RS, Analysis) running fine. Then today someone decided to enable tcpIP and went to services to restart the server on my workstation but it would not restart. I ran repair from the sql server installation center x64 - still nothing - the server wont restart. But Analysis server and Reporting services work fine -- these services can restart fine ... Just not the main server. I'm also running Sql Server express. that runs OK too. But I need my sql server 2008 Developer to run. I looked at the system event viewer -- it said this:
The SQL Server (SQLDEVELOPER) service terminated with service-specific error The specified module could not be found..
I went to Control panel ... services and looked at the properties for Sql Server Developer -- the path was listed as:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.SQLDEVELOPER\MSSQL\Binn\sqlservr.exe" -sSQLDEVELOPER
Everything in windows explorer appears to be in order. How can I restart the server? Do I need to uninstall it and then reinstall it? Any suggestions appreciated.
I rebooted the entire workstation a few times already also, but still server won't restart. What to do?
Rich P