It never come online so I decided to check Windows event viewer.
We got this error because SQL Server evaluation period has expired for this instance.Īs I said, SQL Server was down and I tried starting it from SQL Server Configuration Manager. When we checked windows event viewer, we had seen multiple event ids for SQL Server like Event ID 7024, Event ID 17051 etc. Even we were not able to launch SQL Server Management studio. Recently, one of the SQL Server Instance suddenly stopped working and shutdown automatically. Here, I will show you how to upgrade SQL Server Evaluation edition to Enterprise, Standard or Developer edition in step by step process. We need to activate this SQL Server instance to a licensed version if we want to keep it running. 180 days will exceed then SQL Server will shut down and will not come online. If the validity of Evaluation period i.e. Evaluation edition of SQL Server is free for 180 days and it is equivalent to SQL Server Enterprise Version. Generally, we download SQL Server evaluation edition to learn or do some testing before deployments.