Anyone experienced this scenario before?
I have a SQL2008 R2 standard server with 2 instances. SQL Agent service runs under a domain account, specifically created for running SQL services. Has been running fine for months.
Last week I noticed that someone had installed SQL 2008 Express, more accurately, someone had installed Visual Studio which in turn had installed SQLExpress! In an effort to clean up the server, I stopped the SQL Express server service.
Then I noticed that the agent service for one of the instances was stopped. Any attempt to start it failed, with no error messages in either the console, the windows event logs, the sql error logs - nada!
The agent service on the other instance (using same config) was fine and would happily restart on demand.
I tried all kinds of fixes (http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqldatabaseengine/thread/24a9d481-7251-425a-ac02-2ef627ef6738/) but all to no avail.
Decided to (for no reason) restart the SQLExpress instance. Then tried the failed Agent service - it worked!
What on earth does the install of SQL Express 2008 alongside a SQL2008R2 do to one of the instances? Why does the SQL2008R2 service have a dependency on the SQL2008 express server service?
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