How can I get rid of the following two entries in Control Panel that stubbornly refuse to go away, despite numerous attempts to get rid of them:
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (64-bit) 12.0.2254.0
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Setup (English)
Environment: Windows 10 64-bit (fully patched through May "patch Tuesday").
All SQL Server-related services are set to Manual Startup.
Here is what I have tried so far (all of which have failed to remove the above two entries in Control Panel):
1. Control Panel / Programs / Uninstall - goes through the motions of uninstalling and, on the 4th attempt (because all of the others failed to do what I expected - a clean/complete uninstall) I am still seeing the following error:
There are no valid SQL Server 2014 features to perform this operation
2. Manually right-click on anything with SQL Server in its name in Control Panel / Programs, after the last of which has been removed (except the two previously mentioned stubborn ones), I rebooted.
3. Mounted the SQL Server 2014 Developer edition installation media, copy/pasted everything to c:\aaSql2014, opened a command prompt *IN ADMINISTRATIVE MODE*, run setup.exe /ACTION=UNINSTALL. That simply repeated the same error as before.
4. Ran a variation of the above:
setup.exe /action=uninstall /QS
which results in the following error:
Error result -2068643838
Result facility code: 1203
Result error code: 2
At this point, do I have to perform "registry hack surgery" to get rid of SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition? If so, what entries need to be removed?
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