Knowledge Base

PRB: Error While Running SQL Cluster Setup.exe

Article ID: 186114

Article Last Modified on 3/8/2002

APPLIES TO

This article was previously published under Q186114

SYMPTOMS

While running "SQL Cluster Setup.Exe" you may receive the following error:
The local Server entry in master.dbo.sysservers could not be updated.
SQL Cluster Setup failed.

CAUSE

This error message may occur if the computer name of either cluster node contains dashes or other characters that are not valid SQL identifier symbols.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, you must specify both computers with names that are valid SQL Server identifiers. If you decide to change the computer names in the domain, you must remove and reinstall Microsoft Cluster Server before reinstalling SQL Server, Enterprise Edition 6.5.


Additional query words: install instal installation set up dash hyphen extended special char chars

Keywords: kbprb KB186114


Send feedback to Microsoft

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.