Contrary to Microsoft's message upon my entering title to my title: (their auto-response: "We've found questions similar to yours") None of the "similar questions" that they "have found" are related to mine, and frankly I get
tired of all the many hours I should have to spend on line for softwares that seem incompatible, or not user friendly in their explanation. Lifetime is precious time. Having said that, my situation is that I deleted SQL Server 2008R2, mostly because
when I originally loaded it, forgot to specify 'with Advanced Services'. I had added a couple of databases to it afterwards, like about 5, so I backed those up and put them off to the side, because I could not find anything on web that mentioned whether
or not I needed to delete 2008 before I could load 2012, though after I started to load it, I saw option in process to "update" from 2005 or 2008. Interesting, becaus ...
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