Install SQL Server 2008 Graphical tutorials on Win7 systems

These days because of need, always want to install SQL Server 2008来 as a Web background database to do some experiments, but there is always no time, today finally have time, then installed SQL Server 2008, the following is my installation steps, I hope to help people in need. I've installed it two times altogether, the installation is complete at the first installation, but then there is an "attempt to perform unauthorized operation" error, regardless of what you choose will tell you the installation failed, so the first installation is complete, unable to start SQL Server2008, so I uninstall, With 360 clean up the registry, the first time I installed, I did not select the "Run as Administrator" option, probably because of this reason, so I failed to install. Please note that you must be installed with the administrator.

1. First, on the installation file Setup.exe, click the right mouse button to select "Run as Administrator", as shown in the following figure:

2. First click the Setup.exe installation file on the installation CD and open the SQL Server Installation Center dialog box as follows:

3. Select the installation option on the left and click the "New SQL Server standalone installation or add functionality to existing Installation" option on the right, as shown in the figure:

4. In the Open SQL Server 2008 Installer dialog box, the Installer Support rules option appears, and you can see that some of the checks have passed, click the OK button, and go to the next step, as shown in the figure:

5, click the OK button, the input product key prompts, here I use the key is the Enterprise version: "JD8Y6-HQG69-P9H84-XDTPG-34MBB", click the Next button to continue the installation, as shown in the figure:

6. In the following License Terms page, select the "I Accept License Terms" option, click Next to continue the installation, as shown in the figure:

7. In the Setup Support Files page that appears, click the Install button to continue, as shown in the figure:

8, the installation program supporting the file process as shown in the figure:

9. After the Setup Support Rules page appears, only the rules are in order to continue the installation, click Next to continue the installation, as shown in the figure:

10. On the Feature Selection page, click the Select All button and set the shared feature directory, click Next to continue, as shown in the picture:

11. On the Instance Configuration page, select the default instance and set the root of the instance, click the Next button to continue, as shown in the figure:

12. On the disk space Requirements page, show the space required to install the software, click Next to continue, as shown in the figure:

13. On the Server Configuration page, set as needed, click the Next button to continue the installation as shown in the figure:

14. On the Database Engine configuration page, set the authentication mode to mixed mode, enter the database administrator's password, the SA user's password, and add the current user, click the Next button to continue the installation, as shown in the figure:

15. On the Analysis Services Configuration page, add the current user, click the Next button, as shown in the figure:

16. On the Reporting Services Configuration page, follow the default settings, click the Next button, as shown in the picture:

17. In the Error and Usage report page, select according to your needs, click the Next button to continue the installation, as shown in the figure:

18, in the "Installation Rules" page, if all through, click the Next button to continue, as shown in the figure:

19, in the "Ready to Install" page, see the Features to install options, click Next to continue the installation, as shown in the figure:

20, in the "Installation Progress" page, you can see that you are installing SQL Server 2008, as shown in the figure:

21, after a long wait, the SQL Server 2008 installation process is complete, now there is no error, my first error is in the top step that appears, click the Next button to continue, as shown in the figure:

22. On the Finish page, you can see the "SQL Server 2008 installation completed successfully" prompt, click the Close button to end the installation, as shown in the figure:

23. Start SQL Server 2008, select SQL Server Configuration Manager under Microsoft SQL Server 2008 in the Start menu, and start the SQL Server service as shown in the figure:

24, finally start Microsoft to provide us with the integration tool, as shown in the selected SQL Server Manager Studio option to open, enter the username and password to enter, as the figure shows:

So far I