I have a straightforward installation of SQL Server 2005 Express with a named instance (SENSE), and a single database (sense), on which I wish to perform an in-place upgrade to 2005 Standard Edition.

Running without command line parameters results in a warning on the pre-requisites check page saying that to perform an upgrade I need to start from the command line using SKUUPGRADE=1.

When I do this, the warning goes, and the upgrade check passes, but at no stage am I presented with the instance selection screen (which I would expect to be - the one where it asks if I want to create a new instance or upgrade an existing one), and subsequently the component selection screen is missing server components.

A modicum of googling suggests the following tact:

```
start /wait setup.exe ADDLOCAL=SQL_Engine INSTANCENAME=SENSE UPGRADE=SQL_Engine SKUUPGRADE=1 /qb

```

Which produces the error "The feature(s) specified are not valid for this edition of SQL Server" - and there I am stuck. Any great ideas, gentlemen? Thank you all.