It's a pain but this one reference works for me: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/archive/2010/10/25/fun-with-software-uninstalling-sql-server-2008-r2-evaluation-edition.aspx I continue to troubleshoot uninstall SQL 2008 R2 Express; basically all blogs point to the same low level stuff msiexec /x "{guid}" with this post you could get the guid with powershell instead of navigating with regedit.
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EF 4.1 released ADO.NET EF Code First Development with Entity Framework Walkthrough: POCO Template for the Entity Framework Explicit connection string for EF Ref: 101 LINQ Samples Connection Strings for SQL 2008 Entity Framework: The version of SQL Server in use does not support datatype ‘datetime2′
Troubleshooting with COLLATE in comparison between fields, found this information about Collation Settings in Setup . Also this forum thread provides a lot information about: Server Collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS versus Latin1_General_CI_AS.