Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2008 – Install SQL Server 2008 – How to Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 – Installation Tutorial

By: Paul Fenstermacher

Paul Fenstermacher — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:40:51 +0000

We develop applications that use SQL Server, Oracle (Linux, Windows), Sybase (Solaris) and other DBMS.

I wish there was some way to install the SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise product without creating any instance.

This is because when we build up a new system from scratch, at the point where we perform commercial software installs, our standard is that none of our in-house developed software is installed at that time. It gets installed later, after all the commercial software, via an in-house aotumated process.

So for example, with Sybase and Oracle, we install only the COTS product during an early stage of the system build-up. The installation of the COTS products is the responsibility of System Administrator, not the DBAs.

Much later in system build-up, our scripts that create the Sybase server/databases and Oracle instance/schemas are installed. Creating the Sybase server/databases and Oracle instance/schemas are DBAs responsibility.

With MS SQL Server there does not seem to be to any way to avoid creating a database instance when the MS SQL Server COTS is installed.

Does anyone know of a method to do this?

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:33:22 +0000

select @@VERSION

By: Shaiju CK

Shaiju CK — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:43:43 +0000

Hi Pinal,

How do we find out the installed SQL is Client or Server?

By: sa

sa — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:57:08 +0000

I installed sql server with these instructions. If I want to access the sql server db using sql developer tool, what should i do?

By: Anil Mahadev

Anil Mahadev — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:42:58 +0000

@Jerry,

Also you may wanna take a look @ the primer resource @ MSDN, when upgrading

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393(SQL.90).aspx

Thanks

By: SQL SERVER - Default Collation of SQL Server 2008 Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:30:41 +0000

[...] 3, 2008 by pinaldave Recently I wrote article about SQL SERVER – 2008 – Install SQL Server 2008 – How to Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 – Installation Tutor…, I received couple of comment suggesting that I did not talk about SQL Server default collation [...]

By: Jerry Hung

Jerry Hung — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:46:01 +0000

Thanks for the screenshots

Now in future when anybody asks anything about 2008 installation, provide them with a link to here