[dba-SQLServer] Installing various versions

[Stuart McLachlan]

I'd go with one version per VM. 

On 24 Jun 2017 at 13:15, Arthur Fuller wrote:

> I have stripped my main squeeze of all traces of MS-SQL Server, and
> then run CC Clearner to strip the registry of traces, and then created
> a SQL-free backup. Given my semi-retired status, plus the obvious fact
> that, in the words of Michael Corleone, "I keep trying to get out, but
> they keep dragging me back in," which fact is supplemented by the fact
> that I'm typically a few virgins ahead of my set of clients, some of
> whom are still using SQL 2008.
> 
> I have DVDs of all versions of MS-SQL from 2008 forward. I think I
> need to install them all. There are at least two possibilities: a)
> install them in sequence side by side; b) create a VM for each and
> install only one SQL virgin on said VM. Option b seems, at first
> blush, preferable.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?
> 
> -- 
> Arthur
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