Step-by-step procedure to install SQL Server 2014.
Run SQL Server 2014 setup.
On the screen above, make a click on the "Installation" hyperlink in the left
side of the screen.
This screen shows the types of installation available. Let's select the
first type available "New SQL Server stand-alone installation or add features to
an existing installation".
On the page above, specify the edition of SQL Server to install, if you are
choosing to install a free edition of SQL Server 2014 or an Evaluation Edition
of SQL Server 2014.
You should also provide a product key, if you are installing a licensed edition
of SQL Server. Sometimes the product key is
included in the media (the product key is pre-pidded).
The above is the License Terms page. Read the
license agreement and if you agree with it, check the "I accept the license terms"
check box, and then click the Next
button.
On this page SQL Server 2014 setup is trying to get updates from Microsoft
Update, and for this reason is important to have Internet access when installing
SQL Server as mentioned at the beginning of this article. Make a click on the
checkbox to get the updates, if the computer has Internet access, then click on
the Next button.
The above screens belong to the second set of Setup Support Rules. To have
detailed information about the cause of errors and warnings you may receive
click on the blue hyperlinks associated with each warning/error.
About the Windows Firewall warning, you can go ahead with the installation of
SQL Server, but when it finishes configure your Windows Firewall to allow SQL
Server access or disable it. Click
here to
know how to configure Windows Firewall for SQL Server access.
Alternatively, you can opt to turn off Windows Firewall if you are installing
SQL Server for personal use. You can go to Control Panel and turn it off as
shown below:
If you receive the Microsoft .NET Application Security warning is because Setup Support Rules
verifies Internet connectivity and triggers a warning if there is no Internet
connection. The reason to check for Internet connection is "because .NET always
tries to connect to CRL.MICROSOFT.COM on startup to check signature
validation.". For more information click
here.
In general, warnings won't prevent you from install SQL Server server.
If you performed adjustments in your PC, as explained on the paragraphs
above, you may want to run again the rules and verify if you can leave behind
the warnings. Please click on the "Re-run" button, and click on the Next button
if the computer now passes all the rules, as shown below.
On the SQL Server Setup page shown above, you can decide to install specific
features of SQL Server or decide to install SQL Server using a setup role. For
more information about this page, please click
here.
On the Feature Selection page, please select the features you would like to
install. A description of each feature will appear on the "Feature description"
area when you click on a feature. For a detailed description of each feature,
please click
here.
Once you have selected the features to install, please click on the "Next"
button.
On the Instance Configuration page, select a default or named instance for your
installation. SQL Server supports multiple installations on the same computer,
each installation receives the name of "instance". The default instance gets the
name of the computer, but the named instances, receive the name of the computer
plus the name provided by the user on this setup page. To access a default
instance once it is installed, using SQL Server Management Studio or any other
program, you just need provide the computer name. To access a named instance,
you will need to provide the name opf the instance in the forma of computername\nameoftheinstance.
On this screen you need to provide the service accounts that SQL Server services
will use. As you can notice, SQL Server setup provides virtual accounts by
default, they are auto-managed, they can access the network on a domain
environment by using the credentials of the computer account.
However, I still recommend to create a local user or use a domain user account to start SQLServer
services.
If the computer is not part of a domain, use a local user account without
Windows administrator permissions. You can create this account using Control
Panel -> User Accounts. Please provide a strong password to this account
since SQL Server setup will required it on this "Server Configuration" page.
Use a Domain User Account if the service must interact with network services or
access domain resources. This account should be pre-created by a domain
administration in your environment.
Whether you create a local user or a domain user account, the password you use
to create the account must be a strong password since SQL Server setup will
required it on this "Server Configuration" page.
You can also use built-in accounts (the Network Service account, Local Service,
Local System) as service accounts. However, I would
not recommend to use Local Service Account for SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER). Use
Local System if you need a very high-privileged account, or you are having
issues installing SQL Server using virtual accounts as service accounts. It has extensive
privileges on the local system.
Microsoft recommends you to specify an individual account for each service. The
service accounts used for this configuration must have a strong password as
mentioned above,
otherwise you will get the error "Invalid or missing username or password. To
continue, provide valid credentials for the SQL Server Agent service". A
strong password is one that has a combination of letters in uppercase,
lowercase, numbers and special characters.
To provide a local Windows account or a domain account as service account,
please follow the steps shown in the images below.
Change the location to Active Directory if you would like to provide a domain
account as service account. Click on the "Locations" button to change the focus
of the search to the Active Directory. Once you provide an account, please
validate the account by making a click on the "Check Names". If the validation
fails, remove the user you typed, then click on the "Advanced" button, and click
on Find to get a list of Windows users and select one.
On the "Server Configuration" page you can also select how you want to start
this service on the computer (Startup Type). On my laptops I usually set the
services to start manually, to allow the computer to startup faster. However, on
a server production environment, probably automatic should be the recommended
startup type.
If you receive the below error message ("There are validations errors on this
page"), probably you did not provide a strong password, the password does not
match with password the account has on Windows or on Active Directory. If you
cannot get rid of this message, change the service account specified at the
bottom of the page (with the red balloon) to Local System my work.
On the Database Engine Configuration page (see above), choose the authentication mode to
use for your SQL Server installation. If you select Mixed Mode, Setup creates an sa account.
Enter and confirm the password for
the (sa) login when you choose Mixed Mode Authentication.
You will get the error "Missing system administrator account. To continue,
provide at least one Windows account to provision ...", if you fail to provide
SQL Server administrators and try to continue with the next page of Setup.
The error message "There are validation errors on this page ..." will also
appear. Click the buttons "AddCurrent User" or "Add ..." to provide at
least one account that will have unrestricted access to the SQL Server instance.
Click on the "Data Directories" tab (above image), to change the location of SQL
Server default directories. For information about default location of files on
SQL Server instances, please click
here.
Use this page to enable FileStream on this instance. To enable it, select
"Enable FILESTREAM for Transact-SQL access".
Select "Enable FILESTREAM for file I/O streaming access" to enable Win32
streaming access for FileStream.
On the "Windows share name" text box, to enter the name of the Windows share in
which the FileStream data will be stored.
Select "Allow remote clients to have streaming access to FILESTREAM data" to
allow remote clients to access this FileStream data on this server.
For more information about enabling and configuring FileStream, please click
here.
On the "Analysis Services Configuration Page", please select "Install Analysis Services in Multidimensional and Data Mining Mode" to
install Analysis Services with support for online analytical processing
databases and data mining models.
Select "Tabular Mode" to install Analysis Services with support for tabular
models.
Each mode is exclusive of the other.
Please provide also a user account that will be an Analysis Services
administrator.
On the Reporting Services Configuration page (above), choose to install Reporting
Services on Native Mode or SharePoint Integrated Mode.
On the Ready to Install page, review the summary of features and components for
your SQL Server installation. To proceed, click Install.
On the "Complete" page (above image), you can
view the Setup summary log by clicking the blue link provided on the bootom this page. To exit
the SQL Server Installation Wizard, click Close.
Go to the Start menu, and choose SQL Server 2014 Management Studio (SSMS), to
connect to the newly created instance of SQL Server 2014. This tool will allow
you to further configure the SQL Server instance, create and manage databases,
create jobs, create and run queries, and many other tasks.
If you cannot see it on the Start Menu is maybe because you did not select to
install the "Management Tools" feature of SQL Server or because you just
installed SQL Server 2014 Express Edition and not a licensed edition of SQL
Server. However, you still can download and install SQL Server 2014 Management
Studio Express from Microsoft Downloads.
The following splash screen may appear while SSMS is opening.
To access a default instance once it is installed, using SQL Server Management
Studio, you just need provide the computer name on the "Server name" field of
the dialog shown above. To access a named instance, you will need to provide the
name of the instance in the forma of computername\nameoftheinstance.
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