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  • February 9, 2018 at 8:10 am

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    Ivan R. - Thursday, February 8, 2018 8:19 PM

    ditto. you would think its something that should be simple but MS decides to make it harder. 🙂 same goes for edition downgrade. edition upgrade is a few clicks. edition downgrade is short of reinstalling the instance and putting back master, model, msdb. good luck 🙂

    Are there software installs, especially something as absolutely huge as SQL Server, that easily let you downgrade? I don't mean Excel, I mean, Oracle or similar? I'm not aware of any. It's not usually an encouraged path for technical reasons, let alone monetary ones.

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