[dba-SQLServer] Forcibly Delete SQL Server

Yes, there are a lot of registry entries.

You might want to Google "remove SQL Server Manually"



At 12:00 PM 8/11/2009, you wrote:
>Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:56:39 -0400
>From: Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
>Subject: [dba-SQLServer] Forcibly Delete SQL Server
>To: Discussion concerning MS SQL Server
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>My SQL stuff is all botched up. I wanted to uninstall it all (SQL 2008
>Developer, SQL 2008 Express and SQL 2005), but even that screws up. So then
>I thought, to hell with it, I'll just forcibly delete the entire directory.
>All the databases live outside that tree, so no problem there. Is there
>anything else I should worry about? Is there any reason why this, followed
>by starting again from scratch, wouldn't work? Are there a bunch of registry
>entries to worry about?
>TIA,
>Arthur