Make sure you document your server configuration information and back up any data that you want to keep.When running SQL Server 2008, there may be situations where installing a new installation ...

According to Rikalous, installing Business Intelligence Development Studio is necessary. Upon installing SQL Server 2008 you need to select the Client tools option under the Client tools section of ...

Installing SQL Server on Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit is not as simple as it appears Most of my test servers are still 32-bit machines.

Exit message: SQL Server upgrade failed. To continue, investigate the reason for the failure, correct the problem, uninstall SQL Server using the following command line, and then rerun SQL Server ...

For more information, see 'Creating Full-Text Indexes,' 'CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG (Transact-SQL),' and 'ALTER FULLTEXT CATALOG (Transact-SQL)' in SQL Server 2005 Books Online at this Microsoft Web site ...

If not, just remove SQL Server 2008 R2 and select the instance you are trying to install (Don’t remove anything else). If it’s not there, then leave it and let’s go to the next step.

At the top of the list was that previous versions of SSMS were only available via the main SQL Server installation files. That meant if you wanted to install SSMS on a workstation without also ...

Do a test restore from the tape before installing SQL). However, I didn't have any problems when I installed SQL2000 on an SBS2003 server.

Managed SQL Server Installer has stopped working In this article, we’ll discuss how to resolve Managed SQL Server Installer has stopped working when trying to install SQL Server.

SQL Server 2012/2014 delivers compelling new capabilities that make an upgrade worthwhile. However, along the upgrade path, companies have also discovered key obstacles to achieving the new ...