SQL Server 2016 Basic Installer

Geschrieben von Database Magician am Dienstag, 23. August 2016

'On many occasions I have found myself installing SQL Server and/or its development tools for a non-DBA power user. It always frustrated me to do this because I feel that SQL Server is for advanced users and I would expect advanced users to be able to install software for themselves. This, however, was unfair of me. The fact of the matter is that knowledge of the implementation of SQL Server is only the specialty of one DBA discipline. A database developer does not need to know about instant file initialization, nor should they care how FILESTREAM was enabled.

Microsoft has always done a good job of making the installer easy to work through, until now. Now they have raised the bar. For those of us who are installing SQL Server on a server for team use or even production, there is still the advanced installer available. For everyone else, who just wants a local database to point their web application or SQL Server Management Studio installed so they can query the development environment, we now have the SQL Server 2016 Basic Installer.'...

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