---
title: "How to Install SQL Server: Quick Guide"
slug: "sql-server-installation"
published_at: "2022-10-01T00:00:00.000Z"
categories: "SQL Installation manual, SQL tutorials for beginners"
tags: "Beginners Guide, Installation, SQL Server, Tutorial"
---

# How to Install SQL Server: Quick Guide

> Want to Start learning SQL Server and don’t know where to start? Come and learn how to Install your first SQL Server here!

Do you want to learn how to use SQL and don’t know where to start?

Let’s try to install SQL Server (Developer Edition) for starters, you will need a test environment where you can break everything without any problem in order to learn

![8 beneficios de Microsoft SQL Server para las empresas y negocios -  Globalbit](/blog/sql-server-installation/sql-cover-blog.png)

### Downloading SQL Server

-   First of all, let’s go to Microsoft webpage through this [LINK](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads).
-   Now we are going to click on the Developer edition, you can either click on the link below or go there directly through [THIS](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=866662) link.

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### Installation

-   We execute the installation and click the first option that says “Basic” on the first Screen (I got it in Spanish, but it should be the same).

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-   Now let’s accept the terms and conditions and then decide where we want to install the SQL Server

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-   Click Install and Wait…

So this is it! There’s no more to do… **BUT WAIT!** Now [we have to install SSMS](/install-ssms-sql-server-quick-guide) to have a GUI environment to work with.