I see a lot of comments on Twitter making comments about how hard SQL Server is to install and so I thought I would go through a simple installation based on the August Technical Preview, SQL Server 2008 R2. I also used the latest operating system Windows Server 2008 R2
We are also having a debate internally about the relative usefulness of videos & blogging and so my walkthrough is available in three formats
I can easily look at the numbers of hits against each of these links but some comments about what format you prefer to consume technical information would also help.
The link to your blog gives this error:
http://blogs.technet.com/Msgs/default.aspx?MessageID=32
But I'd prefer the blog format, heh. For what it's worth, I'd love to see somebody independent step through a SQL Server, Oracle, and MySQL installation and time each of 'em.
Brent fixed the link now and as for the other installs that sounds like a job for ..er..... you my friend as you're pretty independant
A very useful and informative post. I am definately subscribing to your feed.