Archives for: December 2009, 16

SQL Server error "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect."

Dec 16th

Posted by Mikeal in MS SQL

After the December windows updates I had issues with a few SQL instances for products like McAfee's EPO.  The services would not start up, and the SQL 2005 patches would fail to install.  I received the following error: The SQL Server (Server Name) ser… more »