After getting a new laptop it's a must (for me at least) to get SQL Server installed. It's hard for me to live without it. Anyhow I ran all the windows updates and decided to install SQL Server 2008 Developer. To my surprise the installation failed right off the back. first I received a notice from the Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA) informing me that I must apply SP1 after the installation, but before I run the actual program. Here is the link to SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1. http://bit.ly/8C7otS
Then shortly after I clicked on the "Run Program" button I received the following error:
Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created.
Now I am panicking and decide to search google to see if others have encountered this very error, but before I do I realized that I had already closed the error message and need it so I can research the exact error message. So I re-run the setup and this time it works. I mean still get the PCA prompt, but I don't get the Invoke error as before. So now I decide to reboot so I can try it again. Sure enough the error comes back, but if I run the setup a subsequent time it works. Then I get to the "Setup Support Rules" and there is a Red X listed next to "Restart Computer" and just to the right of that the Status is "Failed". So I reboot again and ultimately end up in this loop. So I head back to google and find an MSDN SQL Server Setup article that speaks of the exact same error here: http://bit.ly/8dqzNr
I figured in order for me to get passed the (PCA) I'd better turn off the User Account Control (UAC) first. So I do and consequently I don't get the Invoke error. Surprisingly it actually allows me run through the installation process. Up until it hangs on at SqlEngineConfigAction_install_startup_Cpu64. So I terminate the install, reboot and uninstall MSSQL 2008.
Once again I reboot and attempt to install via command. Everything seemed like it was going well then all of a sudden all of the command prompt windows terminate. So I wait about 10 minutes just to make sure and decide to run the setup and this time the install is successful. Once installed I follow up and install Service Pack 1. http://bit.ly/8C7otS. All is good and now I am ready to rock and roll.
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