I'm trying to re-install SQL Server Express from http://www.microsoft.com/express/Database/.
Visual Studio Web was installed previously, so I removed the SQL Server under add programs before installation, since I didn't get a server administration tool with the bundle.
Now, Microsoft (hello, haven't meet in five years), presents an interface to me (SQL Server Installation Center), with endless popups, progress bars, and eula checkboxes, but nothing more than "Setup Support Files" are being installed.
Are they pulling my leg? (Delicate humor if so, the loop is quite annoying, and finally ends with a crash).
Any way to fix this or should I fallback to a FOSS-db?
regards,
//t
Get the Web Platform Installer. Best case scenario is it will help you get what you need installed (inc. SQL EXPRESS) on top of what you have. Worst case it'll make the process a lot easier if you decide to do a clean build.
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When i tried to run SSMS 2012 as administrator it gives the error "application can not start". I am using windows 8 64 bit and sql server 2012.
Actually yesterday i tried to install ssms 2005 side by side installation but i stopped the installation in the middle as it needed a feature to complete installation so i stopped it. Now i want to access SSMS 2012 as administrator as i have to access integration server which prompt me to access it as administrator which lead me to run SSMS 2012 as administrator.
Any help to resolve this problem will be appreciated.
This is usually due to corrupt registries or some bad uninstall that removed files it shouldn't have. It's existed for years over multiple versions of VS and its shell. SSMS is dependent on the VS framework so it's among the potential victims, also spanning multiple versions.
This blog discusses some of the details of the problem and the comments section has some great feedback and possible solutions. The link should bring you directly to Oyvind Gellein's post whose solution worked for many. You can browse the rest of the page if you want to learn more.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2009/10/29/how-to-fix-the-application-cannot-start-error.aspx#10061076
You can also check out this other page for another potential solution
https://mycodepad.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/visual-studio-2012-4-run-as-administrator-the-application-cannot-start-error/
Finally it is resolved by uninstalling all the SQl server components and VS frameworks. Then again reinstalled the sql server with SSMS.
I have a student who installed SQL Server 2014 with tools, but the Management Studio part did not install. There is no SSMMS.EXE on the machine.
So I tried to reinstall it, and the Management Studio tools come up checked but grayed out, so the SQL Installer will not let me make any changes.
So I tried to uninstall SSMS from the control panel-->uninstall programs. However, it was not there.
So I uninstalled all SQL Server programs, then I killed all running instances, then I deleted all the MSSQLServer files under both program files and program files (x64). Then I updated Visual Studio 2010. Then I tried to reinstall SQL Server.
Again, the tools appeared, but they were checked and grayed out.
Soooo. SQL server thinks the SSMS tools are installed and thus will not let me reinstall them. However, they are not installed, so I cannot remove them.
Any idea how to convince SQL server that the tools are in fact absent?
Caution incomplete answer but several more things to try:
1) Could you provide the link to the download you're using - potentially SQL Server management studio (SSMS) is not included so thus can't be installed? From reading the FAQ's this looks to be the case (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/hh322942)
Try this link for installing http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29062
2) Another thread covers a potentially related instance where express was also installed and caused a block to install SSMS.
(Can't install SQL Server 2008 R2 management tool (complete))
3) A long shot would be if anything is left over in the registry which is causing the block. See if there is still and entry in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server] and if so rename to "_bkp"
The last two suggests are long shots but you could try:
4) Try repairing the installation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc646006.aspx
5) Try installing as logged in as another user.
When I setup SQL Server 2005 this problem appear
Minimum Hardware Requirement (Warning)
Messages Minimum Hardware Requirement
The current system does not meet the
minimum hardware requirements for this
SQL Server release. For detailed
hardware and software requirements,
see the readme file or SQL Server
Books Online.
and I continued setup but I could not found SQL Server Management Studio tools in start menu
As mentioned, you have missed installing SSMS. You can go through the install process again (you don't need to uninstall, just run it again), except this time make sure you put a check mark next to the Management tools when you do feature selections. I'd tell you exactly where it is but i only have a SQL2008 install on hand at the moment.
Your SQL is not completely installed, I suggest you to update all feature in your OS.
may be you installed Express edition?
also Management Studio is free, you can download it from link text
Each time I launch the install, it launches the SQL Server Express 2008 panel instead of Management Studio why ?
Ok, I just need to vent little bit and add myself to the list of angry users.
Why they went ahead and messed up the SQL installer is beyond me.
Took me 1+ hour to install SSMS because TO ADD A FEATURE you must select PERFORM A NEW INSTALLATION grrr....
Anyway, a good step-by-step with images (that saved my day) can be found http://www.asql.biz/Articoli/SQLX08/Art3_1.aspx#SSMSonSQLX
You need to follow the same steps when installing Studio Express as you would to install Sql Express (or a new instance of):
Installation > New Sql Server standalone... > click OK/NEXT until you're sick of it > Perform a new installation of.... > OK/NEXT a few more times > and there it is, "Management Tools - Basic"!
MS recommended best practices installer workflow (ya know, MSRBPIWF ;)
Just go to Installation -> New SQL Server stand-alone installation or add features to an existing installation -> Add features to an existing instance. If You downloaded Management Studio installation, you'll have option with it. It is really dumb that You have to do it this way, but that is how it works:)
It is weird and I think the whole installation needs to be re done, (im having my own issues with it right now!)
I just installed management studio express on top of my SQL express 2008 installation and I had to do it by selecting a new installation / instance at the selection screen. If you select modify a existing installation, it only shows the components already installed.
When you do this, it only installs the management studio - nothing else despite it looking like it will from the selection screen.
maybe you've not installed all the components n driver it requires, have you?
Basic Question -
I have installed SQL Server Express 2008 with integrated SP1. This is the database engine alone.
I realise now that I also need the express studio in order to perform a few tasks. I have installed it, however I know that it was the original installer from before SP1 was released.
I have tried it and it appears to work fine but should I install SP1 / could something unforeseen happen in the future?
Some background! -
I wrote out the question and just realised that people probably don't care, so I just summed it up above!
After reading many different sites and guides, the install order for Visual Studio 2008 really confused me.
I really wanted to install SQL Server Express 2008 with advanced services, however on my other machine I had so many problems with it not being detected with Visual Studio, I just wanted an easy life!
I found the download from Microsoft that had SQL Server Express 2008 with SP1 integrated, however it was only the basic engine without any addons. (At the end of the day, as much as I wouldn't mind reporting services, I doubt I will need to use it any time soon).
I installed this, and after applying the hotfix (for x64 sql) my Visual studio can detect and use it no problem.
Now, I want to use Management Studio Express to write a few SQL scripts. The installer is obviously the original one. It seems to work fine, but I cannot find out any information - do I need to install SP1 for it?
Just install it, if its found something it can update - it will, if not... it won't....
Thanks to the wonder of Windows Installer (and I don't mean "I wonder why it's doing that?"--I mean like "This is wonderful!") it is unlikely that you have caused any big issues by running the older version afterwards.
So, yeah, you can probably just install the SQL 2008 Express Management Tools with no worries. If you want to be sure, afterwards just run the SP1 installer and it will make sure everything's up-to-date.
I always make sure to apply patches to client tools as well as server services. There is no reason to take the chance that your client tools have fallen behind in servicing.