
Visual Studio Dev Essentials is Microsoft’s most comprehensive free developer program ever, with everything you need to build and deploy your app on any platform, including state-of-the-art tools, the power of the cloud, training, and support. SQL Server Developer Edition is for development and testing only, and not for production environments or for use with production data. We are making this change so that all developers can leverage the capabilities that SQL Server 2014 has to offer for their data solution, and this is another step in making SQL Server more accessible. NOTE: For the latest information on Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition, please see the blog post: Test the latest SQL Server features with Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Developer EditionĮxciting news! Starting today, SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition is now a free download for Visual Studio Dev Essentials members (you will be prompted to sign in to Visual Studio Dev Essentials before you can download SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition). Noticed that it is WOW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit).This post was authored by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director of Data Platform Marketing 60 (Intel X86)Įnterprise Evaluation Edition on Windows NT 6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (WOW64) Once it has been installed, when you check the SQL Server version using: SELECT SQL Server 2012 installation, you should get something like the following: You can kick off the 32-bit installation process, by running the following command:Īs a matter of fact, you can use the X86=true in the command line or answer file if you want to have unattended installation of SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2 or 2012.

You should then be able to select to install the 32-bit (x86) of the SQL Server.


When you insert the installation media, or mount the ISO image, in some cases you might need to double click on the setup.exe, you will be presented with the SQL Server Installation Center. If you have installation media or ISO image that contains both 32-bit and 64-bit version of SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2 or 2012, here’s how you can install the 32-bit SQL Server on 64-bit Windows (圆4). Looking at the hardware and software requirements for SQL Server 2008, 2008 R from Microsoft site, we should be able to install 32-bit version of SQL Server onto 64-bit (圆4) Windows operating system.
