Installing SQL Servers
This one’s a short post. It’s more of a ‘what I do’ from my experience in rquiring, installing, and running simultaneous versions of Sql Servers on my laptop/desktop.
If you don’t get organized from the very beginning (the first installation of SQL Server), it can get a bit hairy as time goes by. Here’s what I do – every installation is a named instance suffixed by the version number. This is how my local servers are available to me:
- .\SQL2008
- .\SQL2012
- .\SQL2012R2
- .\SQL2014, and now
- .\SQL2016
I have one or two instances running at any given time to manage resource utilization. How do you solve this problem?
Shri Bhupathi View All →
Husband, father, and consultant who dabs mostly in Microsoft technologies. Loves tennis – both watching and playing.