Installing Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition

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∟Installing Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition

This section describes how to download and install Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition.

If you want to learn JDBC API for SQL Server databases, and you don't have access to any SQL Server instance, you can follow what I did to install a copy of SQL Server Express Edition on your Windows computer.

1. Go to the SQL Server download Website at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads.

2. Then click on the "Download Now" button in the "Express" section to start the download.

3. Save the download file to C:\temp directory. When the download is done, you should see SQL2019-SSEI-Expr.exe with 6,376,336 bytes.

4. Double click c:\temp\SQL2019-SSEI-Expr.exe. The setup window shows up.

5. Select "Basic" to install the install SQL Server with default options.

6. Follow instructions given by the setup program to finish the installation.

When installation is done, run Windows Task Manager with "Show processes from all users" turned on. You should see a process called sqlservr.exe running in the process list:

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If you look at file folders, you will see that SQL Server 2019 Express Edition is installed in the "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.SQLEXPRESS" folder.