Download SQL Server 2014 evaluation edition.

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Download SQL Server 2014 evaluation edition.

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May 23, 2017 at 10:59 am

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All, can someone please tell me the best way to install SQL Server Evaluation edition on my laptop since I don't have a DVD rom to burn the .iso? How do I install it if I don't have DVD rom. Any advise?

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Henrico Bekker One Orange Chip Points: 27652 More actions · Answer 1

Download the ISO from here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-sql-server-2014-sp2
You can mount/extract the ISO and run setup from there.

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Sue_H SSC Guru Points: 90860 More actions · Answer 2

newdba2017 - Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:59 AM
All, can someone please tell me the best way to install SQL Server Evaluation edition on my laptop since I don't have a DVD rom to burn the .iso? How do I install it if I don't have DVD rom. Any advise?

Another option - If you register with Visual Studio Dev Essentials, you can download the developer edition of SQL Server 2014 for free. Other free tools available as well:
Visual Studio Dev Essentials

Sue

Mr. Brian Gale SSC-Insane Points: 24800 More actions · Answer 3

If you have the ISO already downloaded, you can grab any zip extraction tool (winrar, winzip, 7zip, etc) and use that to extract the files to a folder and install from there.
If this is a Windows 10 or 8 or 8.1 machine, I think it has built-in tools for extracting ISOs. Not sure if 7 does or not.

The above is all just my opinion on what you should do.
As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.

Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 4

i've used WinCD Emulator, which mounts an iso as if it were a drive, and also http://wincdemu.sysprogs.org/

and also
Virtual Clone Drive
https://www.elby.ch/en/products/vcd.html

I like Virtual Clone drive a lot better, but the portable version of WinCDEmu is very handy.

Lowell

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 5

As a simpler solution (no downloads required,) if you're running Windows 10 and I'm fairly sure 8.1 and 7, you can simply mount the ISO (right-click -> mount ISO) and Windows will then see it as a disk to use. I've installed SQL 2014 from ISO to my servers that way.