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ptg 194 CHAPTER 8 Installing SQL Server 2008 FIGURE 8.3 System Configuration Checker window and the System Configuration Checker. You typically first want to run the System Configuration Checker to confirm that your system meets the minimum hardware and software requirements for installing SQL Server 2008. Click on the link for the System Configuration Checker to bring up the screen shown in Figure 8.3. This is essentially the Setup Support Rules screen that also runs during the actual installation. It’s better to find out now if there will be any issues with the installation before you get into the actual installation. When the SCC scan is complete, overall status of the check is detailed at the top of the main window. You can click the Show Details button to view a detailed report of the checks performed. This report notes any issues found. If any checks fail, or a warning is raised, click the hyperlink in the Status column for more detailed report with specifics and suggestions for resolution. Click the View Detailed Report link to see the SCC results in an HTML report format, which is also saved to a file (see Figure 8.4). After you verify that the system configuration is sufficient to support the SQL Server 2008 installation, click OK to go back to the SQL Server Installation Center. Then click on the Installation option in the menu on the left of the SQL Server Installation Center. This brings up the installation options. To install a new instance of SQL Server, select the New Installation or Add Features to an Existing Installation option, as shown in Figure 8.5. Download from www.wowebook.com ptg 195 Installation Walkthrough 8 FIGURE 8.4 System Configuration Checker HTML report. FIGURE 8.5 SQL Server Installation menu. Download from www.wowebook.com ptg 196 CHAPTER 8 Installing SQL Server 2008 NOTE The following installation steps and screenshots are based on the installation of SQL Server 2008 R2. For SQL Server 2008 installations, the order of the install screens and options may be slightly different, but the screen contents and options are similar. The first step of the installation is to run the Setup Support Rules to identify any potential issues that might occur when the installer installs the SQL Server Setup support files and lists any items that may need to be corrected before Setup can continue. These checks include the following: . Operating system version . Whether there are any reboots pending from other installers . Whether the logged-in user is a system administrator (a must) . Whether there is support for long pathnames where the installation media resides . The consistency of any SQL Server Registry keys After the Setup Support Rules run for the Setup Support Files, you can click on the Show Details button to display a window like that shown in Figure 8.6. If any tests fail, you can click on the View Detailed Report link to see a more detailed report file. You can also click on the hyperlink in the Status column of the failed rule to FIGURE 8.6 Setup Support Rules for Setup Support Files Detail. Download from www.wowebook.com ptg 197 Installation Walkthrough 8 view specifics on the failed rule. If there are no failed Setup Support Rules to hinder instal- lation, click OK to continue to the installation of the Setup Support Files (see Figure 8.7). The Setup Support Files are components that need to be installed so that the actual SQL Server product installation can proceed. Click Install to initiate the installation of the Setup Support Files. After the installation of the Setup Support Files has completed successfully, the Installer reruns the Setup Support Rules, this time running additional checks to verify that the system will support the installation of SQL Server and its features. Again, if any of the tests fail or a warning is generated, you typically need to address this situation before continu- ing to ensure a successful SQL Server installation. For example, Figure 8.8 shows a warning regarding Windows Firewall. Clicking on the Warning hyperlink in the Status column brings up a dialog with more information about the warning. In this case, the warning indicates that if Windows Firewall is enabled, the network ports for SQL Server need to be opened to allow remote clients to access SQL Server on this machine. If no tests have failed and all warnings have been reviewed or resolved, click Next to bring up the Product Key page to enter any necessary product keys if you are installing a version of SQL Server 2008 that is not free (see Figure 8.9). After entering the product key (if needed), click Next to review the License Terms for SQL Server 2008 R2 (see Figure 8.10). Note that you need to accept the license agreement that follows; otherwise, you can’t proceed. Click the check box indicating your acceptance of the license terms and click Next to bring up the Setup Role page, as shown in Figure 8.11. FIGURE 8.7 Setup Support Files installation screen. Download from www.wowebook.com ptg 198 CHAPTER 8 Installing SQL Server 2008 FIGURE 8.8 Setup Support Rules for SQL Server installation detail. FIGURE 8.9 Product Key entry page. Download from www.wowebook.com ptg 199 Installation Walkthrough 8 FIGURE 8.10 License Terms page. FIGURE 8.11 Setup Role page. Download from www.wowebook.com ptg 200 CHAPTER 8 Installing SQL Server 2008 The Setup Role page is new with SQL Server 2008 R2. This page was not available in SQL Server 2008. The Setup Role page lets you specify whether to use the Feature Selection page to select individual features to be installed or to install using a setup role. A setup role is a fixed selection of all the features and shared components required to implement a predefined SQL Server configuration. For example, in Figure 8.11, you are presented with three options. The SQL Server Feature Installation option lets you select individual features and shared components to be installed, such as Database Engine Services, Analysis Services (native mode), Reporting Services, and Service Broker. The Analysis Services with SharePoint Integration option allows you to install Analysis Services server components in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server farm. This option enables large-scale query and data processing for published Excel workbooks that contain embedded PowerPivot data. The All Features with Defaults option skips the Feature Selection screen and installs all SQL Server 2008 R2 features available for the current release. All services are installed with the default system accounts, and the current user running the install is provisioned as a member of the SQL Server sysadmin role. In most cases, you choose the SQL Server Feature Installation option. After selecting this option, click Next to display the Feature Selection window (see Figure 8.12). Here, you can select which SQL Server features you want to install. For example, if you want to install only the SQL Server Client Tools, this is the place you specify that choice. Following are the most commonly available features (detailed in subsequent chapters of this book): FIGURE 8.12 The Feature Selection page. Download from www.wowebook.com ptg 201 Installation Walkthrough 8 . Database Engine Services—Includes the core Database Engine services, optional replication (see Chapter 19, “Replication”), and Full-Text Search (see Chapter 50, “SQL Server Full-Text Search”) services. . Analysis Services—Includes the engine used to create business intelligence solu- tions that rely on OLAP and data mining (see Chapter 51, “SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services”). . Reporting Services—Includes the engine and tools used to generate and deploy data-centric reports (see Chapter 53, “SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services”). . Shared Features—Includes optional features shared among multiple SQL Server instances on the same system, such as Business Intelligence Development Studio, Client Tools Connectivity components, Integration Services, SQL Server Books Online, SQL Server Management Tools, and the Microsoft Sync Framework. If you are uncertain about the need for a specific feature, when you click on it in this window, a description of the feature and what will be installed is displayed in the Description pane on the right. The Feature Selection page is also the place where you can change the installation location for the shared features (if this is the first time any of the shared features are being installed on the system). The default location is C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server. In most production installations, you’ll most likely want the shared features to remain in the Program Files folder. After you finish making your selections, click Next to move on to the Installation Rules page (see Figure 8.13). NOTE In versions of SQL Server 2008 prior to R2, the installation rules were not run until later in the installation process. The Installation Rules page runs a check to determine whether there are any issues that will block the installation of the selected features. From this page, you can address any issues and rerun the rules until they all pass or only warning messages are displayed. Like the Setup Support Rules page, this page enables you to get detailed information on the rule checks performed by clicking on the Show Details button. You can get more informa- tion on a specific rule by clicking the hyperlink in the Status column. A detailed HTML report can be generated as well by clicking on the View Detailed Report hyperlink. When no errors are displayed on the Installation Rules page, click Next to proceed to the Instance Configuration page. You can choose to install SQL Server as the default instance (if a default instance has not already been installed) or as a named instance. SQL Server supports multiple instances of SQL Server on a single server or workstation, but only one instance can be the default instance. The default instance can be an installation of SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, or SQL Server 2008. All other instances must be named instances. The named instances Download from www.wowebook.com ptg 202 CHAPTER 8 Installing SQL Server 2008 FIGURE 8.13 The Installation Rules page. can be different versions and/or editions of SQL Server. You can run multiple instances of SQL Server concurrently on the same machine with each instance running independently of other instances. You can also install SQL Server as a named instance without installing a default instance first. If any instances are already installed, they are listed in the Installed Instances list. (For example, Figure 8.14 shows that an instance of the Shared Components from SQL Server 2005 is already installed.) Another option you can specify on this screen is the Instance Root Directory. This deter- mines where the data files for the system databases for the SQL Server instance will be installed. The installation path for SQL Server 2008 defaults to the system drive of the machine to which you are installing, followed by the root default folder: [system drive letter]:Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server. From here, two main subfolders branch out: . 100—This is the version-specific parent folder (SQL Server 2008 is version 10.0, hence 100) for shared features such as Integration Services (under DTS), client tools (under Tools), shared tools (under Shared), and COM components (under COM). . MSSQL10_50.InstanceName—This is the parent folder for Database Engine compo- nents (under MSSQL/Binn) and data files (under MSSQL/Data). InstanceName is deter- mined by the value specified during the installation process. . MSAS10_50.InstanceName—This is the parent folder for Analysis Services compo- nents. Download from www.wowebook.com ptg 203 Installation Walkthrough 8 FIGURE 8.14 Instance Configuration page. . MSRS10_50.InstanceName—This is the parent folder for Reporting Services components. After you finish configuring the instance, click Next to bring up the Disk Space Requirements page. This information screen shows only the disk space requirements for the features you’ve chosen to install and the available space in the drives you selected to install to. If you want to change the install locations, click on the Back button to return to the screen where the installation directory you want to change is specified. When you are satisfied with your selections, click Next to move onto the Server Configuration page (see Figure 8.15). On the Server Configuration page, you can specify the specific user accounts and pass- words to use for the selected SQL Server services you chose to install. To simplify matters, you can click the Use the Same Account for All SQL Server Services button to specify a single local or domain account dedicated for SQL Server 2008 R2 use and assign it to all services. However, for improved security, it is recommended that you create multiple accounts, one for each service. This helps reinforce the least-privileged user account approach, which states that a user should have only the privileges required to get the job done—and no more. Having multiple accounts also makes it clearer for network adminis- trators to determine which SQL Server services (as opposed to the multitude of other running services) are requesting access to a resource. If you don’t specify a user account, the services are set up to run under the Local System account, which is an account with local admin privileges that does not have access to any network resources. The Installer provides warnings if you specify an account with insufficient privileges or credentials. Download from www.wowebook.com . www.wowebook.com ptg 200 CHAPTER 8 Installing SQL Server 2008 The Setup Role page is new with SQL Server 2008 R2. This page was not available in SQL Server 2008. The Setup Role page lets you specify. of SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, or SQL Server 2008. All other instances must be named instances. The named instances Download from www.wowebook.com ptg 202 CHAPTER 8 Installing SQL Server. installing a version of SQL Server 2008 that is not free (see Figure 8.9). After entering the product key (if needed), click Next to review the License Terms for SQL Server 2008 R2 (see Figure 8.10).