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The SQL Server Installation Wizard provides a single feature tree for installation of all
SQL Server components so that you do not have to install the following components
individually:

¾ Database Engine
¾ Analysis Services
¾ Reporting Services
¾ Integration Services
¾ Replication
¾ Management tools
¾ Connectivity components
¾ Sample databases, samples, and SQL Server Books Online
However, this document covers only installing SQL Server 2008 database engine and
management tools on a New Server and does not cover installing Analysis services,
Reporting services and Replication.

Note: If you try to install on/in a compressed directory the installation fails with an "Attributes
do not match error".

Recommended Versions/ Editions:

SQL Server 2008 x64 Enterprise Edition SP1

Windows Server 2008 x64 Enterprise Edition SP2

Note: This document holds good for all the versions and editions of SQL Server 2008 and
Windows Server 2008.

1. Place the SQL Server 2008 installation DVD in the DVD-ROM drive.
The installation menu should come up automatically. If it does not, select Start |
Run, type D:\AUTORUN.EXE (where D is the label of your DVD-ROM drive), and then
click OK.
Or, you may double-click setup.exe. To install from a network share, locate the root
folder on the share, and then double-click setup.exe.

Note: For local installations, you must run Setup as an administrator. If you install SQL
Server from a remote share, you must use a domain account that has read and execute
permissions on the remote share.

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The system will automatically detect the system configuration and it installs the
.NetFramework and Windows Installer 4.5 if required.

2. At first, you might see the Microsoft .Net Framework version 3.5 Setup Installation
if you do not already have it on the machine on which you are installing SQL Server
2008. You need to be connected to the net in order for the download to happen or
you should have the media with you in order to install the 3.5 .Net Framework.

Figure 1: SQL Server 2008 Prerequisite install screens.

When the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installation dialog box appears, select the check
box to accept the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 License Agreement. Click Install.
To exit SQL Server 2008 installation, click Cancel.

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 Figure 2: Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 Setup – Download and Installation screens.

If you are prompted to restart your computer, restart it, and then restart SQL Server
2008 setup.exe.

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3. When the prerequisites are installed, the Installation Wizard will run the SQL
Server Installation Center.

You are now presented with different options – you can choose to check the
hardware/software requirements, check the system configuration, use the upgrade
advisor etc. You should read these incase you are in doubt and have not already
made sure that you have the necessary hardware and software present to do the
installation. You can take a look at the Security documentation and the Readme files.

Figure 3: The SQL Server Installation Center

4. Make sure that x64 version is being installed by clicking Options link in SQL Server
Installation Center page.

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 Figure 4: Choosing required architecture.

5. To kick off the install, click on the Installation link on the left hand side in SQL
Server Installation Center page. You will now be presented with the SQL Server
Installation Center as shown below in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Main screen for the SQL Server 2008 install.

As you can see, you have options of doing a new installation or upgrading from a
previous installation of SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005. Click New SQL Server
Installation or Add Features to an Existing Installation as you are to create a
new installation of SQL Server 2008.

Note: Other options that you can look at are setting up SQL Server Clustering – you can
create a brand new failover cluster or you can add/remove a node from an existing cluster if
you need to.

6. Once you click on that, you will be presented with a screen that looks like the one
in Figure 6. This step verifies a couple of things prior to launching the install.

Note: The checks that it does are:

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a) OS version check: It needs to make sure that the install is going to be done on the right OS
for a given edition of SQL Server. Essentially, the rules match with the hardware and software
requirements for the install that you can also see here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143506(SQL.100).aspx
b) Checks to see whether any prior SQL Server 2008 installs are present.
c) Whether a default instance is already present.
d) WMI Check: It verifies that the Windows Installer Service is running or not.
e) Reboot check: This is to ensure that there are no pending files from a previous attempt at
the install or any locked files or processes that would hinder with the install.

Figure 6: First Step in the install: System Configuration Check

Click OK to continue. Setup log files are created for your installation.

7. On the Product Key page, select an option button to indicate whether you are
installing a free edition of SQL Server, or a production version of the product that
has a PID key. Click Next to continue.

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 Figure 7: Specifying the edition of SQL Server 2008.

8. Accept the License Terms in License Terms page, and then click Next.

Figure 8: License Terms acceptance Screen.

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9. Click Install to proceed with the Setup support files installation.

Figure 9: Setup support files installation.

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10. Once the set up support rules are checked, you will see a warning for the
Windows
Firewall check since it is enabled by default in Windows 2008. This is something that
you can come back later and fix by enabling specific ports. Click Next to continue.

Figure 10: Setup support rules screen.

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11. Once the configuration check is over, you will then get the feature selection
screen as shown in Figure 11 below. Select Database Engine Services and Client
Tools Connectivity, Books Online and Management Tools, and then click Next.

Note: You can also specify a custom directory for shared components by using the field at the
bottom of the Feature Selection page. To change the installation path for shared components,
either update the path in the field at the bottom of the dialog box, or click Browse to move to
an installation directory. The default installation path is C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\100\.

Figure 11: Feature Selection Screen

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12. Once the features that you need to be installed have been selected, the next step
in the process is the configuration of the instance. You will be presented with the
Instance Configuration screen as shown below in Figure 12. Select Default
Instance, Click Next.

Figure 12: Instance Configuration Screen.

Note: The Instance ID that you see on this screen is the name of the instance. This is used to
identify the installation directories and registry keys for the instance of SQL Server.

Instance root directory — By default, the instance root directory is C:\Program

Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\. Use the field provided, or browse to locate an
installation folder to specify a non-default root directory.

Installed instances and features — the grid shows instances of SQL Server that are
on the computer where Setup is running. If a default instance is already installed on
the computer, you must install a named instance of SQL Server 2008.

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13. The Disk Space Requirements page calculates the required disk space for the
features that you specify. Then it compares the required space to the available disk
space. Click Next to continue.

Figure 13: Disk Space Requirements Screen.

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14. After the instance configuration options have been selected, you will be
presented with the Server Configuration screen as shown below in Figure 14.

Figure 14: Setting up the accounts in Server Configuration

Note: You can assign the same login account to all SQL Server services, or you can configure
each service account individually. You can also specify whether services start automatically,
are started manually, or are disabled. Microsoft recommends that you configure service
accounts individually to provide least privileges for each service, where SQL Server services
are granted the minimum permissions they have to have to complete their tasks. You can
change

For this installation, select

¾ NT Authority\Local System account name in the drop down menu for both
Agent and Database engine.
¾ Startup Type as Automatic.

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14b. Visit the collation tab, to specify Ramco specific non-default collation for
Database Engine.

Figure 14b: Default collation shown above needs to be changed.

Click Customize to see the Customize the SQL Server 2008 Database Engine
Collation screen (Figure 14c)

Figure 14c: Customize the SQL Server 2008 Database Engine Collation screen

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Select SQL Collation option and then select SQL_1xCompat_CP850_CI_AS and
click OK.

Click Next to continue.

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15. Once the Server Configuration Options have been specified, you will be presented
with the Database Engine Configuration Screen as shown in Figure 15a below.

Figure 15a: Database Engine Configuration - Account Provisioning tab

15a.Use the Database Engine Configuration - Account Provisioning page to specify

the following:

¾ Authentication Mode — Specify the security mode (mixed or windows

authentication mode) and enter the password if you go with the mixed mode

¾ SQL Server Administrators — You must specify at least one system

administrator for the instance of SQL Server. To add the account under which
SQL Server Setup is running, click Add Current User. To add or remove
accounts from the list of system administrators, click Add or Remove, and
then edit the list of users, groups, or computers that will have administrator
privileges for the instance of SQL Server.
¾ When you are finished editing the list, click OK.

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15b. On the second tab then (as shown in Figure 15b below), you can specify the
non-default data directories for the different directories needed for the install.

Note: One thing to make sure of is that these directories that you choose should be specific to
this instance so in other words, if we were installing a named instance and a default as well as
other named instances already existed on this machine, then these directories that we choose
over here should be specific to this fresh new install.

Figure 15b: Database Engine Configuration – Data Directories tab

To install to default directories, click Next.

15c. On the third tab (as shown in Figure 15c below), you can then choose to enable
the new option FILESTREAM and you need to then specify the Windows Share name
for the file I/O streaming access.

Note: Ignore FILESTREAM tab for now.

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16. Error and Usage Reporting
You can decide to send error reports as well as the feature usage report to Microsoft
if you wish to do so. It just helps them to provide better support services to you as
well as also allows them to see which features are getting used by the SQL Server
Community. It is completely voluntary.

Figure 16: Error and Usage Reporting Screen

Click Next, on the Error and Usage Reporting screen.

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17. The System Configuration Checker will run one more set of rules to validate your
computer configuration with the SQL Server features that you have specified.

Figure 17: Installation Rules Check Screen

Click Next to continue.

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18. The Ready to Install page shows a tree view of installation options that were
specified during Setup. To continue, click Install.

Figure 18: Ready to Install Screen

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19. You will then see the installation progress for the different components as shown
in Figure 19. The process also maintains this information in the log files and can be
read in case the install goes bad.

Figure 19: Installation Progress screen

This screen takes a while and you can go for a good coffee in the meantime.

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20. Once the installation is done, you will get another screen which indicates whether
a particular component was successfully installed or did it fail. If it failed, in the next
screen you will be pointed to the location of the different logs pertaining to the install
and further analysis will be needed to see why a particular component failed and
then one can run with the repair option to install that component.

Figure 20: Installation Progress: Successful install indicated for this run.

Click Next, when the installation is complete.

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21. After installation, the Complete page provides a link to the summary log file for
the installation and other important notes. To complete the SQL Server installation
process, click Close.

Figure 21: As you can see, the installation is completed successfully.

22. If you are instructed to restart the computer, do so now. After a fresh install of
SQL Server, it is recommended to do the reboot to clean up temporary installation
files.

23. Service Pack and Cumulative Updates:

Download and install x64 version of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack1
‘SQLServer2008SP1-KB968369-x64-ENU.exe’ from
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=66ab3dbb-bf3e-4f46-
9559-ccc6a4f9dc19&displaylang=en

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Download and apply ‘Cumulative update package 8 for SQL Server 2008
Service Pack 1’ from
http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=981702&kbln=en-us
24. Ensuring proper installation:

¾ Once SQL Server 2008 SP1 is installed output of SELECT @@VERSION would
look like Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - 10.00.2531.00 (Intel X64)
¾ Once CU8 is installed, version information in the SELECT @@VERSION
output would look like Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - 10.00.2775.00 (Intel
X64)
¾ When you execute EXEC SP_HELPSORT in SSMS, the output would contain
the string ‘SQL Server Sort Order 49 on Code Page 850 for non-Unicode
Data’

Summary:

In this whitepaper, we went over the different steps that you need to go through in
order to install SQL Server 2008 with regards to Enterprise Series. We covered those
steps one by one and also saw how one can choose the non-default options,
configure the security accounts etc and ensure the successful installation of SQL
Server 2008.

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