The primary benefit of a new installation is that, by installing the operating system from scratch, you are starting with a known good server and brand new SQL Server 2008 implementation.

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.

More notes from the field on installing the new version of SQL Sever. Ok, by now my first upgrade experience with Katmai is well-documented.

Okay, a co-worker typed this up for me to post. I am simply cutting and pasting from e-mail...quote:I just built a new Windows 2003 box, fresh install. The only things I installed after that was ...

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 ...

How to Install Microsoft SQL Query Analyzer. The Microsoft SQL Query Analyzer is part of the client tools that come with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. It's designed to analyze the ...

I am installing SQL server 2000 (standard edition) to support several different 'Administrative' packages I use at work.Namely, Altiris, Mcafee Management Console, OpenManage to name a few.This ...

For detailed information on using SSMSE to manage SSX instances, download the "Managing SQL Server Express with SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express Edition" white paper. Installing Reporting ...

Follow this step-by-step guide to install PostgreSQL, load data, connect to a database, and execute SQL queries including table joins ...

Get Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools – Business Intelligence for Visual Studio 2012, then download it. The installer should start and any updates should be included. Type of installation. Now we come ...