Well the answer is NO,you cant slipstream SQL 2005 RTM with SP1 or 2,however it will support slipstream of hotfixes. Slipstreaming of SP’s is supported starting SQL Server 2008.

Recently I was deploying SQL Server 2005 performance dashboard for a SQL Server 2005 Instance and after I ran Setup.SQL I tried to pull the report using performance_dashboard_man.rdl and instantly…

By default TCP/IP protocol will be disabled for SQL Server Developer Edition of SQL Server.You would require to enable the same to use a port other than the default one.…

Recently came across an interesting situation where I was installing SQL Server 2005 Developer(RTM) and Enterprise on QA and PRODUCTION environments respectively. During install I got an error, which said…

You might have encountered an issue where SQL Server setup will be in hung state during ‘Setting File Security’ phase.This is a known issue and is documented by Microsoft :…

Recently I had to Install SQL Server 2008 Standard on a cluster and our setup was giving error like  ‘Value cannot be null;Parameter=Connection’ This issue was fixed when I tried Slipstreaming.…

Recently I received an error while installing SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer Edition.The error was saying about ‘File format is invalid’. Resolution : This erorr comes up when you have…