Once the process is completed, there should be a final screen saying that SQL Server is uninstalled. You should be seeing the progress window of the SQL Server uninstall. If there are no failures, click Next.Ĭlick Remove to start the uninstall process of SQL Server 2012. Then, there are some removal checks that are done to make sure the uninstall will run smoothly. If your machine has other Versions of SQL Server like SQL 2008 or 2008 R2, some of these components should not be uninstalled. Since I wanted to show the steps to uninstall the entire SQL Server 2012 setup, I selected all features.
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In the next window (pic below) select the features that you want to install from the machine. Once you choose your SQL Server Instance click Next. Also, the list of Instances and their Versions (if there are multiple instances) will be displayed in the a grid below for an overall summary of what are on that machine. If there are multiple Instances on that machine, you would need to be careful in choosing which Instance to uninstall.
There will be a drop down displayed from which we need to select the Instance which we want to uninstall now. In the next screen Select Instance screen, choose what you want to uninstall from that machine.
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A small window similar to the SQL Server Installation splash screen is displayed.Ĭlick on Remove and you should see Setup Support Rules windows displayed which is displayed below.Ĭlick OK to proceed. Then the list of programs and features installed on that machine is displayed as below.Ĭlick on Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RC0 (as mentioned earlier, if you are trying to uninstall SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2, choose that Version). When control panel is displayed, under Programs section, click Uninstall a program. On the machine where SQL Server 2012 is installed (in my case it is Windows Server 2008 R2) clicks Start and select Control Panel. So let us look at the steps to uninstall SQL Server 2012. The user asked the steps to uninstall SQL Server 2012 RC 0, so I thought to write a short blog to help others also, who are looking for steps to uninstall SQL Server 2012, for that matter the steps to uninstall other versions like SQL Server 2008 R are also very similar to the steps in this blog. In command prompt to uninstall SQL Server 2012 Express.This blog is actually in response to comments to one of my previous blogs Installing SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 posted earlier this week. Secondly, you can specify the configuration file at the command prompt and uninstall SQL Server 2012 Express, or you can change the scripts in configuration file to meet your requirement, then copy the scripts
Cancel the setup without actually completing the uninstallation, to generate the INI file. Ready to Remove page in the configuration file path section.ģ. The path to the configuration file is specified in the Follow the wizard through to the Ready to Remove page.
Right click SQL Server 2012 from control panel and select RemoveĢ. Below is an example for you.įirstly, you can perform the following steps to generate a configuration file.ġ. To completely uninstall SQL Server Express include the Browser, Writer and other SQL Server components, I recommend you use theĬonfigurationFile.ini file. Are there any other instances except SQL Server Express in your system?
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