This document will guide you how to install SQL Server Denali CTP3. This is intended to give you a “quick start” of Denali CTP3 installation but this is not a document intended to replace the full product's installation guide found on MSDN Library from this link: Installation How-to Topics : SQL Server Denali
Assuming you have successfully downloaded the installer, click on it to begin installation as shown in figure 1. step no #1. This will extract the installer to a folder named “SQLFULL_x64_ENU” see step #2 as shown below:
Figure 2. Runnning Setup
Setup and support rules will report all the possible problems that might occur when you install SQL Server setup files. You need to address all the items that fail before setup can continue. (Please note the text in bold on the series of steps at the left side of the dialog box. This tells you where you are in the entire setup process.)
Figure 6. Setup Support Rules
This windows will allow you to choose which installation path you want go through which is either you want to “perform a new installation” or Add or remove feature from an existing SQL Server installation instance. If you are coming from “SQL Server 2000”, an instance here (starting from SQL Server 2005) refers to an installation instance which contains features such as SAAS, SSRS and SSIS. This features can be referred to by the instance name. For example an SSAS server can be referred to as “Server1\instance1” and its database engine can be referred to as the same.
This window will also show you all the current installed instances of SQL Server.
From here you need to click Next to continue.
I think this is a bug. Denali CTP 3 will ask for a product key again for the second time. A possible defect has been logged to Microsoft Connect found from this link.
You might have seen this in figure 4. But if you are fond of playing "spot the difference" you can find it on the left side of the dialog which basically tells you where you are in the setup process.
Figure 9. Another prompt for license terms
For this I’m going to choose the feature installation which will install SSRS, SSAS, SSIS and the Database engine.
Figure 10. Setup roles
This will check if all the required features will push through. You need to have the bar all green before you can proceed.
Figure 11. Installation rules
Instance configuration
This dialog box will ask you to name the "instance". Remember that the instance name “does not only refer” to the “database instance” but to all feature installation. For example, in figure 12 below, the instance name is “SQL_DENALI_X64” . Therefore my my box will have an individual SSRS, SSAS, SSIS and database servers but all of them will all be referred to as “myServername\SQL_DenaliX64”.
This dialog will show you if you have available hard disk space requirement before you can proceed with the setup.
Figure 13. Disk Space Consideration
Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 29. Comment: Formatting
thanks Ed for editing!