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September 13, 2008 @ 06:41 PM

SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Installation Experience

Today I installed SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition and following is my experience with the installation process. Running the Setup.exe resulted in the new SQL Server Installation Center screen.

On the left-hand side of the screen is the list of categories; each of those has the options which are shown on the right-hand section of the screen. In order to install SQL Server, you would have to go to the Installation category which is shown below.

Clicking the New SQL Server stand-alone installation or add features to an existing installationlink resulted in the following screen.

The next screen either let's you install an evaluation version if all you are doing is exploring SQL Server otherwise enter a valid product key to install the version that would not expire after 180 days.

Accept terms and conditions.

Clicking Next resulted in the following screen which displays the list of features which are needed by the setup. Clicking Install would install the setup support files.

After installing the setup support files, the setup checks for the following rules.

As you can see, two of the rules failed on my machine because my machine is a domain controller and has Windows Firewall enabled on it. The setup showed the following Warning dialog box upon clicking the Warning link next to each failed rule.

Check out the following article for more information about setting up the firewall for SQL Server to work properly http://msdn.microsoft.com/enus/library/cc646023.aspx Those warning did not stop me from installing SQL Server. Clicking the Next button took me to theFeature Selection screen which allows one to select the features that need to be installed.

I selected the features that I wanted to install and clicked on Next which took me to the following screen which allowed me to specify the SQL instance related values. I decided to install SQL Server 2008 as the named instance SQL2008.

Clicking Next checks for the disk space.

The next screen shows different SQL Server services which will be installed and allows one to change each service's Account Name and the Startup Type. I used the same account for all of the services and set the Startup Type to Manual because I did not want those services to start automatically; rather I would start those services myself whenever I need to play with SQL Server 2008.

The 2nd tab let you change the database Collation which I left as is.

The next screen asks for the Authentication Mode and the SQL Server administrators. I chose Mixed Mode authentication and added two users as the SQL Server administrators.

I left the Data Directories tab unchanged and enabled the FILESTREAM feature.

The next screen was about setting up Reporting Services. I was presented with this screen because I chose to install the SQL Server Reporting Services. Since I have MOSS 2007 installed on the same machine, hence I chose the 2nd option.

On the next screen I enabled both of the options. It is always good to help our friends in Redmond so that they could come up with improved applications.

The next screen checks a different set of installation rules.

The next screen shows a summary of all of the features selected and this is your last opportunity to go Back and change any options that you need to change.

Clicking Install started the installation process which took a long time to complete. All of the components were installed successfully.

Clicking Next took to the following screen! Finally the SQL Server 2008 is installed on my machine.

I ran the SQL Server Management Studio. SQL Server Management Studio detected that I already have SQL Server 2005 running on the same machine, so it gave me an option to import the settings from SQL Server 2005. I chose No.

After that it gave me an option to add the SQL Server 2005 instance to the new version of the Management Studio and I chose Yes.

After starting the SQL Server 2008 service and login to the database, I was able to run the SQL Server Management Studio. Note that I have both the SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 instances listed in the new SQL Server Management Studio.

Now I can't wait to see what new developer features are offered by Microsoft in this version of SQL Server!

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