How to Install Microsoft SQL Server 2019

Let's take a look at How to Install Microsoft SQL Server 2019 on Windows.

Microsoft's SQL server has been known to be one of the popular database server out there. It has various editions for you to choose from - Express, Developer and Enterprise.

These three editions have their own feature set and restrictions. You get the premium experience in the enterprise, however you are kind of restriction in Express and Developer editions.

So in this post, I am going to point you out on How to Install Microsoft SQL Server 2019, developer edition on Windows.

Here are the steps that you can follow:

• Go to official SQL Server website here.
• Download the Developer Edition from here.
• Download the necessary components of Visual Studio (VC++ redistribution package).
• Download the Windows SDK (optional)

If you wish to follow the Visual Instructions for this tutorial. You may want to check out the video displayed below.

This video goes through step by step details on things you need in order to install SQL Server 2019. You may also additionally be required to download some of the files through which the install of the SQL Server would work on smooth.

Note: as the tutorial is created through video instruction, so I have avoided using the image based guided tutorial here. So if you are scrolling to find the image based tutorial in here then I'd recommend you to check the above video instead.

If you followed the video properly you can easily set your own instance of SQL Server. You may also find that you can now easily use the SQL Server specific commands from command line and powershell if everything is setup.

After you follow the above video, make sure to check the additional resources below.

SQL Server docs - This is a place to learn more about the SQL Server related content. You can learn about commands, features, issues of the SQL Server.

Microsoft Learn - Some of the basic SQL Server content and also something to get started with is listed here. You may find some really good value in this resource.

Do note that to further work on the SQL Server you may also need to download and install - SQL Server Management Studio. This application is pretty easy for you to work with small details of SQL Server and it's respective features. I'd recommend you work with it. I'll cover this tool in near future.