Five minutes later, it was installed and I rebooted. Well, after 20 minutes of not downloading, the upgrade to the Framework was installed but then setup wanted to install version 4.5 of the Windows Installer (KB942288). Thankfully, the folks on campus tell me that that dialog is “incorrect ” it’s not really downloading. NET Framework 3.5 SP1 install and noticed that it said it was “downloading.” I found this a bit distressing because I did not want to spend the next 30 minutes waiting for another download. As you’ll see later, it’s a great idea to update Visual Studio before you install SQL Server 2008-it won’t install if Visual Studio is not at SP1. This might already be in place if you have installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1. However, before I got to the first SQL Server setup dialog, I found that the installation script wanted to install version 3.5 SP1 of the. It’s too early to pass judgment, but I can say that it’s different but intuitive. I was initially surprised to find that the setup paradigm you’ve grown accustomed to in SQL Server 20 has been replaced (again).
It’s an Intel Quad Core Duo with (only) 4GB of RAM, so you’ll get an idea about how fast it is in comparison to yours when I start talking about timings. After the nine-hour download of the real SQL Server 2008 RTM from MSDN completed, I began the task of getting it installed on my new development system.
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