[dba-SQLServer] Completely Uninstall SQL Server

Well this does bring up the issue of installing the SSMS which does not come with the express version.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 1/17/2012 9:29 AM, Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi Arthur
>
> After two days and perusing dozens and dozens of pages - many expressing the same woe - I ended up reinstalling ... with Windows 8 Preview. And promised myself never to install locally anything else than SQL Server Express; all regular SQL Server installs will go to server machines.
>
> /gustav
>
> PS: Sorry to bother, but professor Bohr was named Niels.
> An institute of the University of Copenhagen proudly carries his name:
> http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/about/
>
>
>>>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 17-01-2012 14:48>>>
> How can I completely uninstall SQL Server, removing all traces of it,
> including anything that might lurk in the registry? I have more than one
> version installed currently (2008 R2, 2012 RC0, and a 2005 that some other
> product installed. I want to nuke them all and start over. I've tried
> uninstalling them one by one, but that doesn't seem to result in a complete
> nuke. Any suggestions, short of reformatting the disks? (Actually, on
> payday I intend to buy a TB hard disk, copy everything there, and reformat
> all the existing disks, and start over from scratch.)
>