Is there anyone here that's used it? I'm currently using the second printing and ready to throw it in the garbage. I'm so angry at the moment at the amount of problems I'm running into. Technical mistakes is my biggest gripe. For example: to install SQL Server 2012 on Server 2008 R2 Core the following command is used:
Setup.exe /qs /Action=Install /Features=SQLEngine,IS,Conn /InstanceName=MSSQLSERVER /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS="Contoso\kim_akers" /IAcceptSQLServerLicenseTerms
Yeah, I couldn't connect at all. I checked the errata page. Nothing. I searched technet and found out that you need to use /TCPENABLED=1 or the protocol remains disabled and under Server Core, it's not that easy to turn on. That and they never mention /PID="your license key" so you could use a developer version rather than evaluation.
Ok. So now I get to the chapter about installing Analysis Services. The task is to install it from the Command Prompt. I can't get it to work. After I fix a typo in the syntax (which isn't noted in the current errata) it actually looks like it's going to install but when it quits... no AS Instance was ever installed. When I go through the GUI it installs perfectly. I've sat here now for three hours trying different things to get my AS Instance to install from the command prompt.
I'm ready to read the book through and ignore the command prompt BS and install everything from the GUI. Yeah, I'll get to know the switches used.
