Failed to create a database. An exception of type System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException was thrown. Additional exception information: Could not find stored procedure ‘sp_dboption’.

After a bit of reading I found that SharePoint Server 2010 needs SP1 to be installed before I could configure it with SQL Server 2012. I reached to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460045 , downloaded the SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 and executed it. The setup of SP1 took me about 5-7 minutes and then after the SP1 setup, I restarted my computer. I once again executed “SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard” and this time it worked like magic.  So if you face challenges setting up a NEW FARM then you can follow the steps stated above but for the existing farms you need to run upgrade actions in the SharePoint farm and patch all the servers with SP1.

Hope this helps. I will post a few more articles on SQL Server 2012. Keep in touch and have fun.

Watch Steve Ballmer talk about the new Windows Phone 7

-and-

Joe Belfiore demonstrating the *Super Cool* features of Windows Phone 7.

Discover more @: http://www.windowsphone7.com/

Keep a watch on my blog. Bye !

Hello Friends, I am back with a new post after so many days. In the meantime I received a few emails from people across the globe asking me why I don’t write on my blogs any more. First of all I will like to thank people who see value in my work. Second, I regret I was unable to do it as I was a bit involved in some or the other ongoing day to day activities and even after trying hard a few times to complete my posts my schedule didn’t permit me to complete it. I hope going forward I will keep posting some blogs.

So today’s post is to help you in tuning some of your queries. Let’s set some ground rules first: I am providing you very basic steps to tune your slow queries and this post is meant for people who don’t know how to tune the queries and this post is not to advise the SQL Pros. Second, try the suggested steps in your test/development environment first and then if it works for you then you may port it to the production environment.

Thank you very much for visiting this article. In case if you are not on the MSDN blogs then I would request you to please visit my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/manisblog/ because at times I improve the existing articles after reading emails from people who enthusiastically provide their feedback. These improvements might not be reflected on the other blog sites who have indexed this blog post.

Let us take an example. Suppose the following query in AdventureWorks Sample database is slow then how will you tune it.

Sample Query

Step 1:

Now you will execute this query in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio.

Step 2:

Go the the query menu in the SQL Server Management Studio and click on the Option “Analyze Query in Database Engine Tuning Advisor”.

Step 3:

This will open the up the Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA), the radio button “Query” will be selected, your database will be selected in the grid below.

Step 4:

Click on the ‘Tuning Options’ Tab on the top and when you reach the tab make sure that you have selected appropriate options. You may select Indexes and Indexed Views option under Physical Design Structures and may wish to get recommendations on Filtered Indexes. For Filtered Indexes please refer to my post on Filtered Indexes.

You can also select the appropriate partitioning strategy if you want the DTA to provide you with the suggestions related to the partitions.

The third section is “PDS to keep in database”. I have chosen the option “Keep all existing PDS” otherwise DTA will ask you to drop the indexes and partitions that are not used. Please remember that you are analyzing a single query so it may not be appropriate to determine an unused partition or index based on a single query. It may be the case that other queries are using the indexes & partitions. The other options are helpful when you are actually feeding DTA will a workload file (which is out of the scope of this post).

When all the options are set properly, click on the “Start Analysis” button on the toolbar.

The analysis will go on for a few minutes like the screenshot provided below.

Step 5:

Once the analysis completes, you will be provided with a few suggestions, you can click on the “Save Recommendations” button to save the DTA recommendations as a SQL File.

Step 6:

Open the SQL file that you have saved in the SQL Server Management Studio. Go through the queries that the DTA has provided as suggestions, make the modifications that you think are required and then EXECUTE the queries.

Suggestions, I received from the DTA (You may receive different ones)

Wooo Hoo ! You have improved revitalized the SQL query to sprint which was walking earlier.

That’s it from now my friends, keep a watch on the blog and I will post something new soon.

-Ravi

Thank you very much for visiting this article. In case if you are not on the MSDN blogs then I would request you to please visit my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/manisblog because at times I improve the existing articles after reading emails from people who enthusiastically provide their feedback. These improvements might not be reflected on the other blog sites who have indexed this blog post.

The Kilimanjaro comes with some of the most powerful features and most desired features for Business Intelligence that will allow the organizations to broaden the reach of BI to every section of the business helping business to take faster, better and more relevant decisions. SQL Server 2008 R2 will help you to unlock your data & produce meaningful information in no time which in turn will empower the end users to take reliable & relevant decisions.

SQL Server 2008 R2 is presently in the CTP (Community Technology Preview) stage it can be downloaded from the Microsoft Website : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee315247.aspx . I started using the SQL Server 2008 R2 since last a few days and among the features I used, I find them all very compelling and convincing.

Some of the features / project that SQL Server 2008 R2 comes with are worth mentioning like the “Project Madison” which is a highly scalable and high performance data warehouse appliance that will deliver amazing performance at low cost through a massively parallel processing (MPP). Moreover it allows you to scale your data warehouse from Terabyte to Petabyte range on an Industry Standard Hardware. The best part is that “Project Madison” will complement your existing SQL BI solution & ongoing BI efforts because the appliance model of “Project Madison” simplifies deployment and maintenance, it integrates with existing SQL Server 2008 data warehouses via hub-and-spoke architecture and the fruits are greater ROI from BI investments through integration with SQL Server 2008.

A sample of scale out data warehouse with “Madison”.

Picture Source : Click Here

Do you love MS-Excel for analyzing your business results ? The project “Gemini” in an innovative solution that allows you to analyze your data on your most loved tool MS-Excel. This Excel add-in enables the Excel power users to easily create powerful BI solutions by streamlining the integration of data from multiple sources enabling interactive modeling and analysis of massive amount of data. “Gemini” also supports the effortless sharing of data models and reports through Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010.

A quick look at the “Gemini” dashboard

Picture Source: Click Here

People are using SQL Server Reporting Services for sometime now, they have developed their critical and important reporting solutions with SQL Server Reporting Services. So now the SQL Server 2008 R2 comes with an enhanced SQL Server Reporting Services which also has a new and enhanced Report Builder component the “Report Builder 3.0”. The Report Builder 3.0 accelerates report creation, collaboration and consistency. The Reporting Services now allows rich visualization of geospatial data which includes mapping, routing, and custom shapes that can help the end users to create customized reports that leverage existing content objects, such as queries, data regions, and charts and graphs. The users can also enhance location-based data reports with Bing Maps in Report Builder 3.0.

There are many more exiting features that I am exploring now like, the UCP (Utility Control Point) that will help the DBAs with the manageability or the MDS (Master Data Services) that helps to improve the quality of the data and many more….. If you have not explored the features of SQL Server 2008 R2 then you may do it now… Download the latest SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP from : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee315247.aspx

I will get back to you soon with my articles on the SQL Server 2008 R2 features till then keep visiting my blogs and keep writing to me !

Every organization has a specific data usage pattern and if we have an idea of the data usage pattern then we can create the filtered indexes to cover the subsets of data that can actually yield faster results from our same query / stored proc.

Let’s say the sample database “AdventureWorks” is used by a company that sells spare parts and they have different departments that sell specific products and lets say the racing bikes being the hottest in the market, it drives more sales for the racing bike spare parts. This means that more transactions are being done related to a specific product(s) so most of the times the data is filtered, is based on a specific Product Id. Moreover if there are millions of Rows in the table, it becomes really necessary to choose the indexes correctly and carefully because of the storage space involved to store them.

For example the queries (like the following one) are executed based on a selection criteria very frequently then the filtered indexes will help you a lot.

Let see generally how indexes speed up the queries. During the SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE operations the SQL optimizer will look for indexes and determine the most efficient method to complete an operation. In this process SQL Optimizer determines to use an index or to go for a table scan. The SQL Optimizer does this operation to reduce the query execution time and improve the performance.

Index seeks are preferred for the selective queries like the one above and the index seeks happen only when the optimizer finds the index on the table useful, otherwise it will scan all the records. Generally, searching an index to spot a matching record is faster than a table scan because it is ordered and less number of columns means small set of data which in turn means less hops to find the match. Unique indexes are faster and table partitions speeds it up more. Well ….discussing the anatomy of indexes and strategy for indexing the tables is a huge subject and there are books available for that so …let me get back to the topic where I left it.

So why a filtered index ? A filtered index can be used as an index for a subset of data rather than the entire set of data. The filtered index takes less space to store the index because it stores only index information related to a subset of data unlike an usual non-clustered index. In no way this is a substitute for  a regular Clustered and Non-Clustered indexes. This is an additional enhancement that can help you in tuning specific highly selective queries.

What are the advantages of Filtered Indexes :

Improved query performance and plan quality

A well-designed filtered index improves query performance and execution plan quality because it is smaller than a full-table non-clustered index and has filtered statistics. The filtered statistics are more accurate than full-table statistics because they cover only the rows in the filtered index.

Reduced index maintenance costs

An index is maintained only when data manipulation language (DML) statements affect the data in the index. A filtered index reduces index maintenance costs compared with a full-table non-clustered index because it is smaller and is only maintained when the data in the index is affected. It is possible to have a large number of filtered indexes, especially when they contain data that is affected infrequently. Similarly, if a filtered index contains only the frequently affected data, the smaller size of the index reduces the cost of updating the statistics.

Reduced index storage costs

Creating a filtered index can reduce disk storage for non-clustered indexes when a full-table index is not necessary. You can replace a full-table non-clustered index with multiple filtered indexes without significantly increasing the storage requirements.

You can also determine the space required for an index. Please visit : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191163.aspx 

How to create a Filtered Index ?

Let’s see an example :

So simple .. just add a WHERE clause to the index. You need to choose the WHERE clause carefully.

When to Use Filtered Indexes

Filtered indexes are useful when columns contain well-defined subsets of data that queries reference in SELECT statements. Examples are:

• Sparse columns that contain only a few non-NULL values.
• Heterogeneous columns that contain categories of data.
• Columns that contain ranges of values such as dollar amounts, time, and dates.
• Table partitions that are defined by simple comparison logic for column values.

Reduced maintenance costs for filtered indexes are most noticeable when the number of rows in the index is small compared with a full-table index. If the filtered index includes most of the rows in the table, it could cost more to maintain than a full-table index. In this case, you should use a full-table index instead of a filtered index.

Filtered indexes are defined on one table and only support simple comparison operators. If you need a filter expression that references multiple tables or has complex logic, you should create a view.

Please visit books online to know more about filtered indexes and keep reading my blogs.

Bye Now !! :-)

So how to do it…. When the user registers herself to the ASP.NET application for the first time you can ask the Country and State of residence of this user which is stored in the database. Now, when the transaction is posted you can do the following to get the user’s local time of the transaction.

Thank you very much for visiting this article. In case if you are not on the MSDN blogs then I would request you to please visit my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/manisblog because at times I improve the existing articles after reading emails from people who enthusiastically provide their feedback. These improvements might not be reflected on the other blog sites who have indexed this article.

Step 1:

I created a table called TimeOffsets with two Columns, Location and TimeOffset with a Primary Key on ‘Location’.

Step 2:

I entered some values into this table. It is a little time consuming but it is a one time job. For your help I have attached an Excel Document along with this blog post so you can import the values into the SQL Server Table.

NOTE: The Time Zone Offset that I am providing below is not a complete list and it is not daylight saving aware. You have to make the changes accordingly. This is just a sample.

Step 3:

Create a SQL Function that will return the value of type DateTimeOffset.

Step 4:

Now say suppose your Local TimeZone is “Delhi” (India) i.e. your server is located in Delhi and the local time zone is set for the server and you want to find out what is the current time in Los Angeles (USA) then you will call this function as follows:

This will yield the current time at Los Angeles.

NOTE: I am attaching the SQL Script to create the Table and the Function as well as the Excel file containing the Time Zone Offsets along with this post. You can download it from here.

Thank you for reading this post … and keep a watch on my blog for newer posts.

Attachment.zip

Mr. Amit Chatterjee delivered the first session on the VSTT 2010 features in the Tech-Ed on 13-May-2009. The theme was ‘Visual Studio 2010 has a new BUG’. Yes, the Visual Studio Team test has a new “BUG” i.e. the BUG Workitem. You will say ‘what is so new in that ?’  it is already there in the Visual Studio 2008 but this is really new & exciting …

… now in the Bug WorkItem you can automatically record the test and attach the screenshots & the video to the Bug workitem and it happens automatically once you turn on a couple of switches. Now Visual Studio will have the Lab management capabilities so if you want to test your application on a given platform you can do that. Rather than giving each tester additional set of PCs to test the application, you can put all these PCs in a Pool. These PCs will host the Hyper-V VMs specific to your test environment. The tester can test your applications thoroughly in this environment, preserve the environment, if something goes wrong - they can always step back to the previous setting and finally when everything done – they can tear down this VM to make additional room for other VMs. The coolness in this feature is … the Developers & Testers need not to be an IT-Pro or an Administrator to stage all this environment, the VSTS provides the connectivity to System Center Virtual Machine Manager and from within the VSTS you can initiate this environment and manage it. This will help the customers spend less from their IT budget and enhance the productivity of the testers. If you remember, I said “ENVIRONMENT” i.e. you can even test your distributed applications. These features were demonstrated by Shay Mandel.

One of the other cool feature that I loved the most is the Coded UI test. I work with a lot of ISVs and it has been a constant demand that they need to have some tools to test the UI. Now the VSTS 2010 comes with an ‘INTELLIGENT’ test recorder. ‘I want to emphasize the word INTELLIGENT’ because unlike the usual test tool that records the (X,Y) coordinates and breaks when the screen resolution changes, the VSTS 2010 records the details of the controls used on the web pages and creates the C# or VB.Net code in the background so now you can either play it back and write a few lines of code to test this application’s UI against the million possible values. You can even fetch the data from your database and play it on the UI to check if any of these values break the UI, just by writing simple code.

Check out for more in the near future…

The Rock Band – Agnee http://www.agneelive.com started the session with Rock Music – Jee Le Baby !! This song was specially composed for Microsoft Tech-Ed. It is a very cool song. Everyone in the audience was very restless to see Steve Ballmer with a lot of expectations and questions, glittering their eyes.

It started with a Key Note by our CEO - Steve Ballmer. Everyone cheered loud when Steve entered the hall. Steve started with the economic slow down and he shared his vision of optimism towards the future. People had a lot of questions for him starting with Windows 7 to economic slow down. Steve said that very soon Windows 7 will be released and there is a lot of buzz in the industry. People who are using the pre-release version of Windows 7 are already liking it very much. Some SQL Server MVPs had the question on SQL Server’s future release and Steve said “Keep a watch !!”. Steve is very optimistic about the release of the latest Microsoft software in the near future like Windows 7, VSTS 2010 etc. There was a question around the Microsoft’s future plans in India. Steve said that, he sees a great talent pool in India. Steve sees the current “Economic Reset” as a half glass full, he energized everyone with positive energy. The key note ended with loud cheers from the audience.

Overall the arrangements were done very well. From the registration desk, upkeep of the hotel, certification kiosks to the food, everything was well managed. The event organizers wearing the green T-shirts were always ready to help and guide. There were some certification kiosks setup where people played games and won the vouchers. The XBox counter was the one I liked the most. There were many more counters from Microsoft learning, Citrix, Intel, Kingfisher Airlines etc. Overall it was very informative. The security arrangements, quality of food and beverages are worth mentioning.

This event was co-sponsored by many other partners including the news paper, Economic Times http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/.

There were many tracks in the Tech-Ed like the Developer Track, IT-Pro track, Business Intelligence Track, Architecture Track, Application Lifecycle Management Track. I attended the Business Intelligence Track and the Application Lifecycle Management Track.

The session by Amit Chatterjee on Visual Studio Team Test is the one I liked the most. He talked about the new capabilities in Visual Studio 2010. I attended the detailed session on VSTS 2010 Lab Management and Visual Studio Team Test 2010 called as “Tech Tent” delivered by Shay Mandel, I was simply spell bound. The new VSTS 2010 carries so many cool features. The entire Visual Studio Team Test team, including Eyal Melamed, Neelesh Kamkolkar, Vishal Mehrotra, Vinod Malhotra and others were very helpful, addressed every question that came up during the session and took a note of every feedback.

I will write about the new features of VSTS 2010 and other sessions I attended very soon … so keep a watch on this blog. Cheers !!

The official Tech-Ed site is : http://www.microsoft.com/india/teched2009/

Thank you very much for visiting this article. In case if you are not on the MSDN blogs then I would request you to please visit my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/manisblog because at times I improve the existing articles after reading emails from people who enthusiastically provide their feedback. These improvements might not be reflected on the other blog sites who have indexed this article.

Hmm.. what am I going to cover today.... it is something that we all expect from a SQL Server database i.e. performance and I am going to write it in the same fashion that you like most i.e. simplify the contents, make it easy to understand and provide the steps with pictures.

Introduction

We all know we have to work with loads of data every day and over the time with the growth of the organization the data bank also grows tremendously. We see there is a performance degradation after few years or months. Is it the same SQL Server that was working efficiently in past is now getting slower, it is not the SQL Server binaries that have changed, it is still the same efficient SQL Server but the growth of data and the way it is structured plays a big role in the performance.

In my experience I have seen that an inefficient query, badly built index, poorly structured database can eat up the entire resources on the server. If the best practices are followed then you will get good performance from the SQL Server. For the best practices on Physical Design of SQL Server Database visit: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/physdbstor.mspx

Today I am going to discuss how easy it is for us to partition our tables for better performance with SQL Server 2008 (Katmai). I am not going to cover what is the criteria for partitioning your data because it is a long conversation topic. I am just going to highlight the SQL Server 2008 Management Studio's feature for table partitioning.

Partitioning Steps

You should partition your tables that has accumulated a lot of data over the time and you find that the performance is slowing down. It would not be a very good idea to partition a table it has  just a couple of hundred rows for example : Product Category table. You could partition your tables that contains a lot of transactions like Purchase Order tables, Sales Order tables, General Ledger Tables etc.

Step 1:

Open the SQL Server 2008 management studio and select the appropriate table that needs to be partitioned. Right click on the table and in the context menu select Storage >> Create Partition.

Step 2:

I am using the [Purchasing.WorkOrder] table in the 'AdventureWorks' sample database. When you select the above option a wizard dialog box appears, press the next button once.

You will see a dialog box with the columns available for partition with data type, length etc. Select the column on which you would like to create a partition and press next.

Step 3:

Provide the name of the partition function and press Next.

Step 4:

Provide the name of the partition scheme and press next.

Step 5:

You have to select the option Left Boundary or Right Boundary and then click the button that says Set Boundaries.

Left boundary
The Boundary column label in the grid will dynamically display <= Boundary when you select Left boundary.

Right boundary
Select to include range values up to the specified value in the Boundary column for each filegroup selected. The specified value will be the starting value for the range values of the filegroup on the next row. The Boundary column label in the grid will dynamically display < Boundary when you select Right boundary.

A small dialog box appears with the caption "Set Boundary Values". Select the starting and ending date and select the Date Range from Monthly, Yearly, Quarterly, Half-Yearly , Daily and press OK. I am using End Date field for the partition in this demo.

The above option will create the partition ranges for you. Select the appropriate File Group for each partition in the grid and then click on the 'Estimated Storage' button which will give you the details of the required space. Once you are happy with the results, please press 'Next'.

Step 6:

After pressing the 'Next' button you will get the option to create a script or to run it immediately or to schedule it for a later time. Depending on your requirements you can select the option and press the finish button.

See it's so easy to partition your tables and achieve better performance. Please keep a track of my blogs because I will soon come up with more blog posts, if you have any feedbacks or if you liked this article then please drop me an email. Thank you.

Now I am providing you with a set of steps to demonstrate deployment of SQL Server 2008 with your application as a prerequisite. You can try these steps on your test environment first. SQL Server 2008 Express needs Windows Installer 4.5 and .Net 3.5 SP1 Framework.

In case if you are not on the MSDN blogs then I would request you to please visit my blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/manisblog because at times I improve the existing articles after reading emails from people who enthusiastically provide their feedback. These improvements might not be reflected on the other blog sites who have indexed this article.

1. Download and install Visual Studio 2008 Express edition because the SQL Server 2008 bootstrapper will be found with the VS2008 Express. Now the steps that I am suggesting would be done using your usual VS 2008 SP 1 development environment like VS 2008 Professional, Team Suite etc.
   
   NOTE: If you are using any other language version other than English like German etc. then please download the appropriate language version of Visual Studio 2008 Express and SQL Server 2008 express.
   
   Visual Studio 2008 Express and SQL Server 2008 Express could be downloaded from : http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/ 
   
2. Using VS 2008 Development Environment, create a small .Net 3.5 Windows application that connects to SQL Server 2008 Express Edition.
3. Add a Setup Project to this Visual Studio 2008 Solution.
4. Add the project output of the Windows Application to the setup project.
5. In the setup project you would not be able to locate Windows Installer 4.5, .Net 3.5 SP1 and SQL Server 2008.
6. Now download all the files from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5A58B56F-60B6-4412-95B9-54D056D6F9F4&displaylang=en  to the Bootstrapper/packages folder which looks like C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages. This will provide you with the Windows Installer 4.5 Bootstrapper.
7. Download SQLEXPR_x64_ENU.exe , SQLEXPR_x86_ENU.exe, SQLEXPR32_x86_ENU.exe from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=58ce885d-508b-45c8-9fd3-118edd8e6fff&DisplayLang=en and place them in the SQLExpress2008/en folder within the Bootstrapper/packages folder. This makes sure that the SQL Server 2008 Express is present.
8. Now to download the .Net 3.5 SP1 framework please navigate to http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/e/20e90413-712f-438c-988e-fdaa79a8ac3d/dotnetfx35.exe and download the 231 MB file.
9. At the command prompt navigate to the folder that contains the dotnetfx35.exe file and type : dotNetFx35.exe /x:. This will extract the Framework files to a folder named "WCU" in the current directory.
10. Copy the contents of the WCU\dotNetFramework folder and paste them in the %Program Files%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 folder (%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 on x64 operating systems). Note: Do not copy the WCU\dotNetFramework folder itself. There should be 5 folders under the WCU folder, and each of these should now appear in the DotNetFx35SP1 folder. The folder structure should resemble the following:

    DotNetFx35SP1 (folder)
    dotNetFX20 (folder
    dotNetFX30 (folder)
    dotNetFX35 (folder)
    dotNetMSP (folder)
    TOOLS folder)
    en (or some other localized folder)
    dotNetFx35setup.exe (file)

11. Now for the successful installation of the .Net 3.5 SP1 Framework on the client computer you need to take further following actions so that the framework installs successfully. After these steps you would be able to add .Net 3.5 SP1 Framework, Windows Installer 4.5 and SQL Server 2008 Express with your application setup.

Open the [Program Files]\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 folder or %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 on x64 operating systems Edit the Product.xml file in Notepad. Paste the following into the <PackageFiles> element: <PackageFile Name="TOOLS\clwireg.exe" /> <PackageFile Name="TOOLS\clwireg_x64.exe" /> <PackageFile Name="TOOLS\clwireg_ia64.exe" /> Find the element for <PackageFile Name="dotNetFX30\XPSEPSC-x86-en-US.exe" and change the PublicKey value to: 3082010A0282010100A2DB0A8DCFC2C1499BCDAA3A34AD23596BDB6 CBE2122B794C8EAAEBFC6D526C232118BBCDA5D2CFB36561E152BAE 8F0DDD14A36E284C7F163F41AC8D40B146880DD98194AD9706D057447 65CEAF1FC0EE27F74A333CB74E5EFE361A17E03B745FFD53E12D5B0CA5 E0DD07BF2B7130DFC606A2885758CB7ADBC85E817B490BEF516B6625D ED11DF3AEE215B8BAF8073C345E3958977609BE7AD77C1378D33142F13 DB62C9AE1AA94F9867ADD420393071E08D6746E2C61CF40D5074412FE 805246A216B49B092C4B239C742A56D5C184AAB8FD78E833E780A47D8 A4B28423C3E2F27B66B14A74BD26414B9C6114604E30C882F3D00B707 CEE554D77D2085576810203010001 Find the element for <PackageFile Name="dotNetFX30\XPSEPSC-amd64-en-US.exe" and change the PublicKey value to the same as in step 4 above Save the product.xml file

NOTE : If the table above is not properly displayed then you can refer Section 2.3.1.1 in readme file. In the section 2.3.1.1 you would get the options to install additional language packs as well. You should copy the PUBLICKEY from the URL below. Please navigate to the following URL:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/2/8/A2807F78-C861-4B66-9B31-9205C3F22252/VS2008SP1Readme.htm.

I referred the following documents / blogs to put these steps together :

1. http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/2/8/A2807F78-C861-4B66-9B31-9205C3F22252/VS2008SP1Readme.htm#Product%20Issues
2. http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlexpress/archive/2008/09/12/faq-installing-the-sql-server-2008-express-clickonce-bootstrapper-for-visual-studio-2008-sp1.aspx 

Thank you very much for visiting my blog and this article. Please keep a watch on this blog for new posts.