>>Last night I was installation SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Tools (SSMS) on customer's Server 2008 (this was my 3rd or 4th attempt but this time after customer IT rebooted the server).
>>Everything was going well during the installation, progress and all.. All of a sudden the server went down. I saw the message that my RDT connection was broken; I tried to connect a few times but could not. I contacted IT (good thing he sleeps as little as I do :) He found that server went down (he said, "possibly some other VM caused the problem" but in reality I don't think he knows). He brought up the server back on.
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>>When I connect to the server this morning, I see that the SQL Server is running and SSMS is installed and I can connect.
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>>My questions are:
>>1. Is it possible that the installation of this SQL Server Express continues even after I was disconnected from the VM box?
>>2. How do I verify that the SQL Server Express is installed "properly" (for the lack of a better term) and that I can rely on it?
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>>TIA
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>Did you try to check Windows Events Log and SQL Server logs ?
No.
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