Getting started with Microsoft SQL Server OVER Clause PIVOT / UNPIVOT Database Snapshots Retrieve information about the database The STUFF Function FOR XML PATH Cursors Join Common Table Expressions Move and copy data around tables Dates Limit Result Set Retrieve Information about your Instance With Ties Option Variables JSON in Sql Server Window functions Partitioning Stored Procedures GROUP BY Generating a range of dates COALESCE Split String function in Sql Server INSERT INTO CREATE VIEW String Functions Resource Governor ORDER BY WHILE loop System database - TempDb Migration Primary Keys MERGE Full-Text Indexing FOR JSON SELECT statement DBMAIL Index Queries with JSON data Storing JSON in SQL tables OPENJSON Ranking Functions Trigger Converting data types NULLs Transaction isolation levels Advanced options IF...ELSE TRY/CATCH Data Types User Defined Table Types Table Valued Parameters In-Memory OLTP (Hekaton)Temporal Tables Insert Sequences SCOPE_IDENTITY()Views Use of TEMP Table Scheduled Task or Job Isolation levels and locking Sorting/ordering rows Privileges or Permissions Foreign Keys SQLCMD File Group cross apply Basic DDL Operations in MS SQL Server Computed Columns UNION Subqueries Last Inserted Identity CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE Parsename Installing SQL Server on Windows Aggregate Functions Querying results by page Schemas Backup and Restore Database Transaction handling Natively compiled modules (Hekaton)Database permissions Spatial Data Dynamic SQL Pagination Query Hints Modify JSON text Row-level security Dynamic data masking Export data in txt file by using SQLCMD Encryption Managing Azure SQL Database Common Language Runtime Integration Delimiting special characters and reserved words CASE Statement DBCC BULK Import Query Store Service broker Analyzing a Query Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Shortcut Keys Permissions and Security PHANTOM read Filestream Drop Keyword String Aggregate functions in SQL Server SQL Server Evolution through different versions (2000 - 2016)SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)Logical Functions Dynamic SQL Pivot Alias Names in Sql Server bcp (bulk copy program) Utility

Installing SQL Server on Windows

Introduction

These are the available editions of SQL Server, as told by the Editions Matrix:

Express: Entry-level free database. Includes core-RDBMS functionality. Limited to 10G of disk size. Ideal for development and testing.
Standard Edition: Standard Licensed edition. Includes core functionality and Business Intelligence capabilities.
Enterprise Edition: Full-featured SQL Server edition. Includes advanced security and data warehousing capabilities.
Developer Edition: Includes all of the features from Enterprise Edition and no limitations, and it is free to download and use for development purposes only.

After downloading/acquiring SQL Server, the installation gets executed with SQLSetup.exe, which is available as a GUI or a command-line program.

Installing via either of these will require you to specify a product key and run some initial configuration that includes enabling features, separate services and setting the initial parameters for each of them. Additional services and features can be enabled at any time by running the SQLSetup.exe program in either the command-line or the GUI version.

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