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>> I have tried to install the SP3 Analysis Services
>> Components (for SQL 2000 server)
>This might be a silly question, but from your description
it's not clear --
>are you running Analysis Services? Later you say that
Enterprise Manager
>will not run, but that is not a part of Analysis
Services...
>--
>Aaron Bertrand, SQL Server MVP
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>Not a silly question at all. I did not specifically
install Analysis Services. When you see the problems
caused by viruses the inclination is to install all
patches supplied that may be relevant. Even though I did
not install the product specifically there is no obvious
(to me) way of being sure when a development environment
is being set up and multiple software products installed
that it was not installed as part of another install. With
the tight integration of multiple software products
currently it seems impossible to determine all products
affected by a single change or patch. I would expect the
patch to check and tell me it was unnecessary rather then
causing an error with a meaningless error message?
The problem with enterprise manager on one of the machines
may well not relate to the patch - it was just that
testing right after the patch failed revealed there was a
problem. Since you state that the patch has no effect in
that area I will attempt a reinstall.
Thanks Rykk