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This is summary step, displaying the features you have chosen to install… Continue to the installation by pressing Install button. In the Installation configuration rules, ensure that there are no failures and click Next to continue. The next screen asks if you would like to send Error Reports automatically to Microsoft. It is not mandatory and the installation would be able to continue even if the option is unchecked…. The next step displays the disk space information such as how much disk space it needs to install the chosen components and how much disk free space available on the local disk. Note that warnings might not stop the installation and you should be looking to see that there are no failures… It would perform a check for the installation rules and displays the results as shown below. Management Tools – Basic (Including the sub selection of Management Tools – Complete).Only the Shared Features listed below should be selected. In the next screen, do not select anything under Instance Features. This option presents the opportunity to choose what components need to be installed, so a custom list of components can be chosen. In the Setup Role step, choose SQL Server Feature Installation. Continue the installation by clicking Next. Again ensure that you do not have any failures, warnings can be ignored. The above image shows the same screen after the setup support components are installed. It would then install a series of support files that are required for the setup to continue installing. In the Setup Support Files step, click Install button.
INSTALL SQL SERVER CLIENT LICENSE
In the License Terms screen, select the option against “ I accept the license terms”. In the next step, you need to enter the Product Key found on your installation media. If you find any failures, try to address them (you can know more info by clicking Show details button). Warnings can be ignored (it may not be mandatory setting). It goes to the next screen (shown below) which does few initial checks before starting the installation. Once you are in the Installation page, look at the first option from the top New installation or add features to an existing installation. Picture below shows the screen when you click on installation. In the initial screen, you will find that Planning section is bold (chosen) be default (look in the left side section), click on Installation. You should be seeing a popup window as below. Start by double clicking the setup.exe in the installation folder of SQL Server 2008 R2.
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INSTALL SQL SERVER CLIENT PC
If the pc has a pending reboot, it would throw out a request to reboot in the middle of the installation, at that point you will have to reboot the machine and again restart from this step… In order to have a smooth installation, restart the PC before beginning the SQL Server client installation.
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In this blog let us look at the steps involved in installing SQL Server 2008 R2.