Just installed SQL 2012 and it was the most pleasant installation experience that I have had with SQL Server, no work arounds or config file modifications; double clicked setup.exe and clicked next until finished. Make sure you uninstall any Denali/2012 pre RTM instances including PowerPivot that you may have and remove old Denali/2012 PowerPivot and SSRS service applications in SharePoint Central Admin
Cool, what is programming improvement, anything
Richard,
cannot we upgrade RC0 to the release version? I have a few prototypes in my local RC0, if I have to remove RC0 in order to install the release versio, that will break my appications.
thanks
Hua
Hi,
I tried to Upgrade with little success, check out this link though, http://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2012/03/how-to-upgrade-sql-server-2012-rc0-to-release-rtw-or-rtm/
Excited to try it… Did find some interesting things for Software Assurance customers.
http://clostech.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/sql-2012-per-core-licensing-and-software-assurance/