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I had successfully installed BIDS 2008 on my machine. I uninstalled it, and now need to re-install it.

When going through the setup, Business Intelligence Development Studio has gray check mark in the Feature Selection screen. Visual Studio 2008 is not installed on my machine. I don't see any references to BIDS 2008 in the add/remove programs. Yet the installer seems to think it's there.

Does anyone know how I can COMPLETELY remove BIDS to re-install it? Is it a registry file somewhere? Any help is appreciated.

Josh F
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My attempts to uninstall Business Intelligence Development Studio 2008 from a machine with SQL Server 2008 Express Edition ended with success after following the link:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/955404/sql-server-2008-installation-fails-when-you-try-to-install-sql-server

and manually running the command:

setup.exe /ACTION=uninstall /FEATURES=BIDS /INSTANCENAME=SQLEXPRESS

After uninstalling the previous instance of BIDS, the installer allowed me to select/check BIDS and other features.

AS Mackay
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