I’ve installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (an apparent requirement for the installation of MSSQL Server Express 2008 R2), but I still can’t continue with the installation of MSSQL due to it failing the SP1 check.

I had the same SQL Server edition running fine not six months ago but had to uninstall; what could have gone wrong between then and now, and how can I fix this?

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