A migration allows you to avoid this middle step. A migration lets you start with a clean deployment, rather than carrying over baggage from an older version of SQL Server (and possibly an older ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

SQL Server Developer Edition is Free! If you haven’t used much SQL Server in the past due to cost, you no longer have that as an excuse. SQL Server Developer edition, a full-featured version of SQL ...

If not, just remove SQL Server 2008 R2 and select the instance you are trying to install (Don’t remove anything else). If it’s not there, then leave it and let’s go to the next step.

The Linux version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 v.Next is a viable option for customers who want to deploy the RDBMS on an open source platform, but the early previews lack some features of the ...

Warnings Information in this article applies to Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The instructions for earlier versions of SQL Server, including versions 2008 and 2005, are similar.