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I do not care about Azure anything at this point.
You are on the wrong track; MS SQL Server on-premise has (nearly) nothing to do with Azure cloud.
Read the error message and do what it says.
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Julie Campbell
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I am trying to install an instance of SQL Server Express 2022 on my Windows 11 machine, for my own use locally. I tried SQLLocalDB and that had it's own myriad of issues. I had to disable my Windows firewall which is disturbing. Then it almost gets through the installation, but then it fails on
Pressing Help give this:
Which leads to this link:
I do not care about Azure anything at this point. I want a local database accessed only from the machine it is on. What do I do for a simple, local database installation that actually sets up the engine?
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ZoeHui-MSFT 41,491 Reputation points2024-10-25T07:03:33.3333333+00:00 Hi @Julie Campbell,
Could you please provide the error log so that we could do more analysis about the issue.
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Erland Sommarskog 121.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator2024-10-25T20:19:52.4+00:00 Could you please provide the error log so that we could do more analysis about the issue.
What do you mean by this? It is clear from her Answer below that was able to resolve her installation problems. As for the issue with the bad link, there is more than enough information to reproduce the behaviour. See also my feedback item, https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/idea/74e4b6a8-2e8f-ef11-9444-6045bdbe65aa
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Olaf Helper 47,436 Reputation points2024-10-19T04:22:11.57+00:00 -
Julie Campbell 0 Reputation points
2024-10-19T04:40:31.9266667+00:00 Thanks for trying, not the answer, but I do appreciate your effort. The link from "help" on the error message is bad. The answer was a combination of two things:
- Windows 11, had to change the partition size from 4096 to 4095
- Use this for the engine service NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
Both are mentioned here, I tried them at the same time. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19538089/wait-on-the-database-engine-recovery-handle-failed-check-the-sql-server-error-l
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Erland Sommarskog 121.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2024-10-20T22:02:09.4233333+00:00 That's a horribly bad experience. It's bad enough that Setup does not stop you already at the gate by checking the sector size. But these links, they are just insulting.
I ran a test to verify this, and I've submitted a bug report. You can vote here:
https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/idea/74e4b6a8-2e8f-ef11-9444-6045bdbe65aa
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Julie Campbell 0 Reputation points
2024-10-19T04:40:57.5066667+00:00 Thanks for trying, not the answer, but I do appreciate your effort. The link from "help" on the error message is bad. The answer was a combination of two things:
- Windows 11, had to change the partition size from 4096 to 4095
- Use this for the engine service NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE Both are mentioned here, I tried them at the same time.https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19538089/wait-on-the-database-engine-recovery-handle-failed-check-the-sql-server-error-l