SMS: Error Message: Fatal Error. Setup Cannot Upgrade the SQL Database (268238)

WORKAROUND

Perform the following query in SQL Query Analyzer, focused on the SMS database, to verify that the database has not been upgraded: If previous upgrade attempts did not complete the upgrade procedure for the database, the output shows version 1380, which is the Service Pack 1 (SP1) build number.

If you want to keep all of the existing status messages, use the steps in the following sections. If you do not want to keep any of the existing status messages, follow the steps in the "Truncate the Affected Tables so the Upgrade Procedure Can Proceed" section.

How to Export Tables to an Alternate Database

1. Quit all SMS services, and then quit and disable the Microsoft Windows Management service on the site server.
2. In SQL Enterprise Manager, click the SMS database, and then click the Tables and Indexes tab in the right pane in Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
3. Verify the number of rows and the table size for the StatusMessageAttributes, StatusMessageInsStrs, and StatusMessages tables.
   
   If there is an excessive number of rows in any of these three tables, start the SQL Enterprise Manager MMC snap-in.
4. Double-click the server name, double-click Databases, and then open the SMS database.
5. Click Tables, and then right-click the StatusMessageAttributes table.
6. Click All Tasks, click Export Data, and then click Next when the Data Transformation Services Export Wizard starts.
7. In the Choose a Data Source dialog box, click Next, and then click New in the Database list in the Choose a Destination dialog box.
8. In the Name box, type a temporary name, click OK, and then click Next.
9. In the Specify Table Copy or Query dialog box, click Next.
10. In the Select Source Tables dialog box, click to select the check boxes for the following tables, and then click Next:

    [SMS database name].[dbo].[StatusMessageAttributes]
    [SMS database name].[dbo].[StatusMessageInsStrs]
    [SMS database name].[dbo].[StatusMessages]
    

11. In the Save, Schedule and Replicate Package dialog box, verify that the Run immediately check box is selected, and then click Next.
12. In the Completing the DTS Wizard dialog box, click Next, and then click OK when the table-copying procedure is finished.
13. In the Executing DTS Package dialog box, click Done.

Truncate the Affected Tables so the Upgrade Procedure Can Proceed

1. In SQL Enterprise Manager, click the SMS database, and then click the Tables and Indexes tab in the right pane in MMC.
2. Verify the number of rows and the table size for the StatusMessageAttributes, StatusMessageInsStrs, and StatusMessages tables.
   
   If there is an excessive number of rows in any of these three tables, run the following queries in SQL Query Analyzer, focused on the SMS database:

   "TRUNCATE TABLE StatusMessageAttributes"
   "TRUNCATE TABLE StatusMessageInsStrs"
   "TRUNCATE TABLE StatusMessages"

   You can now restart the SMS 2.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) upgrade.

To verify the progress of the installation procedure, use the smstracer command to monitor the Smssetup.log file.

When the installation procedure is finished, start the SMS Administrator console to verify connectivity to the database.

Restore the Status Message Tables After the Upgrade Procedure

1. Quit all SMS services, and then stop and disable the Windows Management service on the site server.
2. In SQL Enterprise Manager, click the SMS database, and then click the Tables and Indexes tab in the right pane in MMC.
3. Verify the number of rows and the table size for the StatusMessageAttributes, StatusMessageInsStrs, and StatusMessages tables.
   
   If there is an excessive number of rows in any of these three tables, start the SQL Enterprise Manager MMC snap-in.
4. Double-click the server name, double-click Databases, and then open the SMS database.
5. Click Tables, and then right-click the StatusMessageAttributes table.
6. Click All Tasks, click Import Data, and then click Next when the Data Transformation Services Import Wizard starts.
7. In the Database box, click the database name that you created in the "How to Export Tables to an Alternate Database" section of this article, and then click Next.
8. In the Choose a Destination dialog box, click Next, and then click Next in the Specify Table Copy or Query dialog box.
9. In the Select Source Tables dialog box, click Select All, and then click Next.
10. In the Save, Schedule and Replicate Package dialog box, verify that the Run immediately check box is selected, and then click Next.
11. In the Completing the DTS Wizard dialog box, click Finish.
12. When the table-copying procedure is finished, click OK, and then click Done in the Executing DTS Package dialog box.

You can now view status messages in the SMS Administrator console.

NOTE: If you want to permanently remove the status messages before you upgrade to SMS 2.0 SP2, any status messages that had previously existed are removed from the database tables and are not displayed in the SMS Administrator console. If you click to select the Component Status check box, you can view all of the status messages that are now removed. Because you did not change the Summarizer_ComponentTallys table, the counts for error, information, and warnings for the component remain. These counts are reset to the current summarization tallies at the next 12:00 A.M. tally reset.