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SQL Server 2008: Day 0
By farseeker | August 11, 2008
Not a great start. It took the best part of an entire day to install SQL Server 2008 on my Vista machine.
The installation started well. It installed the pre-requisite Windows Installer 4 and .NET Framework 3.5. Requisite restart after Windows Installer. Sailed through a much more sensible configuration wizard, saw a few new features that I didn’t look at in detail, and got to the final checking. It then complained that my version of Visual Studio 2008 was out of date. Why this matters, I’m not sure, but it required an upgrade to SP1.
So, I scour the net looking for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and I can only find a beta. So I go to install the beta, and on the work connection (capped at 32kbps/stream) it took 5 hours to download the service pack. After 90 minutes of it installing, it decided to fail and rolled back. After rolling back it told me it was successfully installed. I thought maybe it was a visual bug, so I tried the SQL installation again. No go, still complaining about Visual Studio. So, rather than do the service pack again, I simply un-installed Visual Studio. I use it rarely and when I do use it I honestly usually use V6 because I work with legacy ActiveX components.
(I miss the good old days of basic software. It took 45 minutes to finish “Generating Setup Script”)
So, after waiting no less than 2 hours for Visual Studio to uninstall, SQL Server passed all its tests and installed. Becuase I’m now at home, waiting for some friends to come over, I won’t be playing with it tonight. Tomorrow the fun will begin.
Topics: General | 1 Comment »
August 12th, 2008 at 8:40 am
I’ve experienced this exact pain in a production environment.
One has to wonder sometimes :/