I am planning to install Windchill 10.2 with SQL Server 2012 as backend database. I have SQL server 2012 which already installed for Integrity 10.9 with ‘Latin1_General_CI_AI’ collation. So I created new named instance ‘WINDCHILL’ with collation ‘Latin1_General_100_CS_AS_SC’. During Windchill 10.2 installation, SQL server configuration does not accepts instance name ‘WINDCHILL’ it says following error
“Failed to validate SQL Server master database collation as 'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS' for SQL Server 2008 R2 or 'Latin1_General_100_CS_AS_SC' for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014. Windchill requires SQL Server SQL Collation 'Directory order, case-sensitive, for use with 1252 Character Set'. Re-configure the SQL Server Instance with Collation 'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS' for SQL Server 2008 R2 or 'Latin1_General_100_CS_AS_SC' for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014.
*SQL Server DNS Registered Host Name:
Installed SQL Server Instance Name (Named Instance only): ”
So I gave <server name>\WINDCHILL for which I got below error.
Invalid SQL Server database Instance Name specified. Installed SQL Server Instance Name (Named Instance only):
Following questions raised
- Does WINDCHILL 10.2 always requires fresh SQL server 2012?
- Does WINDCHILL 10.2 uses any specific name format for named instance?
- Both Integrity and WINDCHILL 10.2 can share the same SQL server 2012 without extra SQL licenses?