In continuation of my earlier post for Denali CTP1 launch, here are SQL Server 2011 setup screen prints. To begin with you can download installation media from Microsoft Link. Before you start installation, you must check system requirement and are as follows:
System Requirements: Details
- Supported Operating Systems:Windows 7;Windows Server 2008 R2;Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2;Windows Vista Service Pack 2
- 32-bit systems
- Computer with Intel or compatible 1GHz or faster processor (2 GHz or faster is recommended.)
- 64-bit systems
- 1.4 GHz or faster processor
- Minimum of 1 GB of RAM (2 GB or more is recommended.)
- 2.2 GB of available hard disk space
The very first screen you will see is typical SQL Server installation, For this installation I used new SQL Server stand alone installation.
At this point of time, you may lock the system, leave chair and go for a coffee break. On a normal desktop class machine for test purposes it may take up to 60 minutes. On a server class machine installation time may differ depending on configuration and option chosen during setup.
After the break its nice to see the one happy installation, go ahead and check installation summary files as best practices
This is nice small screen there you may realize that Denali is reality
Alright, nothing fancy about Connecting to SQL Services
This is the first change you probably will realize that Object Explorer in SQL 2011 is moveable
Here are the default SP_CONFIGURE settings that are available in CTP1
| name | minimum | maximum | config_value | run_value |
| access check cache bucket count | 0 | 65536 | 0 | 0 |
| access check cache quota | 0 | 2147483647 | 0 | 0 |
| Ad Hoc Distributed Queries | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| affinity I/O mask | -2147483648 | 2147483647 | 0 | 0 |
| affinity mask | -2147483648 | 2147483647 | 0 | 0 |
| affinity64 I/O mask | -2147483648 | 2147483647 | 0 | 0 |
| affinity64 mask | -2147483648 | 2147483647 | 0 | 0 |
| Agent XPs | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| allow updates | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| awe enabled | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| backup compression default | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| blocked process threshold (s) | 0 | 86400 | 0 | 0 |
| c2 audit mode | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| clr enabled | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| common criteria compliance enabled | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| contained database authentication | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| cost threshold for parallelism | 0 | 32767 | 5 | 5 |
| cross db ownership chaining | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| cursor threshold | -1 | 2147483647 | -1 | -1 |
| Database Mail XPs | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| default full-text language | 0 | 2147483647 | 1033 | 1033 |
| default language | 0 | 9999 | 0 | 0 |
| default trace enabled | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| disallow results from triggers | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| EKM provider enabled | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| filestream access level | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| fill factor (%) | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| ft crawl bandwidth (max) | 0 | 32767 | 100 | 100 |
| ft crawl bandwidth (min) | 0 | 32767 | 0 | 0 |
| ft notify bandwidth (max) | 0 | 32767 | 100 | 100 |
| ft notify bandwidth (min) | 0 | 32767 | 0 | 0 |
| index create memory (KB) | 704 | 2147483647 | 0 | 0 |
| in-doubt xact resolution | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| lightweight pooling | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| locks | 5000 | 2147483647 | 0 | 0 |
| max degree of parallelism | 0 | 32767 | 0 | 0 |
| max full-text crawl range | 0 | 256 | 4 | 4 |
| max server memory (MB) | 128 | 2147483647 | 2147483647 | 2147483647 |
| max text repl size (B) | -1 | 2147483647 | 65536 | 65536 |
| max worker threads | 128 | 32767 | 0 | 0 |
| media retention | 0 | 365 | 0 | 0 |
| min memory per query (KB) | 512 | 2147483647 | 1024 | 1024 |
| min server memory (MB) | 0 | 2147483647 | 0 | 16 |
| nested triggers | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| network packet size (B) | 512 | 32767 | 4096 | 4096 |
| Ole Automation Procedures | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| open objects | 0 | 2147483647 | 0 | 0 |
| optimize for ad hoc workloads | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| PH timeout (s) | 1 | 3600 | 60 | 60 |
| precompute rank | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| priority boost | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| query governor cost limit | 0 | 2147483647 | 0 | 0 |
| query wait (s) | -1 | 2147483647 | -1 | -1 |
| recovery interval (min) | 0 | 32767 | 0 | 0 |
| remote access | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| remote admin connections | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| remote login timeout (s) | 0 | 2147483647 | 20 | 20 |
| remote proc trans | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| remote query timeout (s) | 0 | 2147483647 | 600 | 600 |
| Replication XPs | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| scan for startup procs | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| server trigger recursion | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| set working set size | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| show advanced options | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| SMO and DMO XPs | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| SQL Mail XPs | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| transform noise words | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| two digit year cutoff | 1753 | 9999 | 2049 | 2049 |
| user connections | 0 | 32767 | 0 | 0 |
| user options | 0 | 32767 | 0 | 0 |
| xp_cmdshell | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
SSMS Screen prints, the looks and presentation is very appealing, I do hope to spend more time on this screen going forward.
This is the beginning of SQL 2011, keep checking for more posts..