SQL 2008 Reporting Services installation failure “The Reporting Service catalog database file exists. Select a Reporting Services files-only mode installation.”

Daniel Davies — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:40:05 +0000

We were doing a re-install of SQL 2008 Reporting Services recently when we came across the below error.

This was caused due to the Reporting Services SQL databases, still existing from the previous SQL installation.

To Resolve this i deleted the following databases from the SQL installation location and then when i hit ‘re-’run’ and all tests passed

SQL 2008 Installation Checks Failed

Daniel Davies — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:39:55 +0000

I came across this issue when trying to upgrade to SQL 2008 sp1, where one of the checks failed and would not allow me to update. The check was “‘Reboot required ” .

Solution

1, Open Regedit

2, Navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

3, Go to the properties of the following DWORD Value “PendingFileRenameOperations”

4, Remove any data in this value (so this is blank)

5, Do the same again for the following keys

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet001\Control\SessionManager HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet002\Control\Session Manager

6, Attempt to rerun the checks and all should be ok

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SQL 2008 Reporting Services installation failure “The Reporting Service catalog database file exists. Select a Reporting Services files-only mode installation.”

SQL 2008 Installation Checks Failed