SQL Server installation and tools
Although installation of SQL Server 2012 is usually relatively straightforward, you need to make many decisions during installation, but this chapter doesn’t cover all the details of every decision. You need to read the installation details, which are fully documented. Presumably, you already have SQL Server installed and available for use.
Your installation doesn’t need to include every single feature because the focus in this book is on the basic SQL Server engine, although you should at least have installed a client tool such as SQL Server Management Studio that you can use for submitting queries. This chapter also refers to options available in the Object Explorer pane of the SQL Server Management Studio.
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