Installing SQL Server 2017 Express

The installation process is pretty straightforward. Unless we don't need anything specific, we can just go for the basic type:

Eventually, we'll be prompted with an Installation has completed successfully! window, which will also give us some useful information, including the Database instance name and a default connection string ready for a connection test:

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