I'm trying to upgrade an older version of SQL Express 2008 to 2012 by first upgrading to (what I think is) 2008 SP3 (10.0.5500.0).
The upgrade to 2008 SP3 says it has completed and the version of the browser and client etc are showing as 10.3.5500.0 but the SQL Server version is still showing as 10.0.2531.0 in the errorlog. When I run the 2012 install exe (11.0.2100.60) it is failing on "SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 or later is required"
I'm not very experienced when it comes to SQL so any help would be appreciated.