- WHAT FILES WE NEED TO INSTALL SQL SERVER 2014 INSTALL
- WHAT FILES WE NEED TO INSTALL SQL SERVER 2014 LICENSE
WHAT FILES WE NEED TO INSTALL SQL SERVER 2014 INSTALL
Within the folder that I unpacked the box file the "loc" version of the msi files was located: \1033_ENU_LP\圆4\Setup\Īnd the files without "loc" in the filename were located: \圆4\Setup\Īfter the uninstall process completed I restarted my computer and was able to install SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition as the default instance. Most of the time it would ask for a msi file with "loc" in the filename followed by a msi file without "loc" in the filename. Once the uninstall process started requesting the install media I found it would ask for various. I chose to uninstall the database components but leave the shared components. I just used the unpacked files to uninstall my existing SQL Server 2014 instance. Note that I never attempted to install the evaluation version. After the box file was unpacked I reinitiated the SQL Server 2014 uninstall process via the standard Add/Remove Programs workflow. The executable seemed to just unpack the box file. In order to download the evaluation version I had to give Microsoft some contact details and then download two files. I was able to uninstall my SQL Server 2014 instance by downloading the SQL Server 2014 evaluation version*. If I can use the dot notation connection string to connect up to SQL Server 2017 without uninstalling SQL Server 2014 then I'd be open to that solution as well. The dot notation connects to the default database, and to my knowledge I can't make SQL Server 2017 the default database without uninstalling SQL Server 2014 first.
Initial Catalog= Trusted_Connection=True Connection Timeout=30 To make setting up development environments easier we use the dot notation for our local environment development connection strings, for example our connection string is: Data Source=. The whole reason I want uninstall SQL Server 2014 is I want to use the STRING_AGG function which is new to Azure SQL Databases and SQL Server 2017. How can I uninstall SQL Server 2014 Standard without the install media? I also checked My Visual Studio but it only goes back to SQL Server 2016. Unfortunately I didn't save the SQL Server 2014 download package I got from MSDN, and I no longer have access to MSDN.
I tried to uninstall SQL Server 2014 via the standard Add/Remove Programs workflow but after asking me what features I want to uninstall it prompts me for the directory containing the uninstall media. Now I want to uninstall SQL Server 2014 and make SQL Server 2017 Developer Edition my default instance.
WHAT FILES WE NEED TO INSTALL SQL SERVER 2014 LICENSE
I installed standard on my machine because I had a free license that I could use via my MSDN subscription. I've had a copy of SQL Server 2014 Standard installed on my dev box as the default instance for a few years.