Hello.
I am having a problem installing SQL Server 2012 Express on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. The problem is that the installation runs endlessly eventually having to end the task to get out of it. After researching on the internet this is a known problem. The installation gets into an endless loop. It is discussed here: http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/741476/
At the above url discussion the Microsoft SQL Server team posted this response:
Hi all, thanks for taking the time to report this issue. Installing SQL Server 2012 from within a Windows Installer transaction is not supported. Setup needs to be launched from outside of windows installer and can't be done from a custom action.
thanks,
[SQL Server Team]
I originally thought this meant just download the .exe files and run them. HoweverJonathan Dyke on 10/19/2012 at 5:16 PM (same url) also writes:
Even manually running the The SQL Server 2012 express installation by double clicking on its executable produces the same behavior.
So I have 2 questions:
1. How do I "launch setup from outside of windows installer and not from a custom action"?
2. When I brought down my endlessly looping installation program I was warned that the previous operation of setup would need to be undone before reinstalling (something like that). Do I need to do any cleanup before reinstalling? I was trying to install
to C:\Program friles\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.SQLEXRESS and the later directory was not created yet.
Thank you for assisting.
Dan