Hi all. I have a weird bug when trying to install SQL Server 2012 Express with Advanced Services (same issue with 2008 with Advanced Services). I can get past the initial extraction phase, but when the installer tries to run setup.exe after the
extraction (I assume it is trying to run setup.exe?), a DOS window opens and then closes almost right after, and then the extraction directory and its contents are deleted. When I use TaskManager to track the service, SQLEXPRADV_x64_ENU_2012.exe*32 is
running during the extraction phase but once it runs setup.exe and the DOS window opens and closes, SQLEXPRADV_x64_ENU_2012.exe*32 disappears from the TaskManager. I am running SQLEXPRADV_x64_ENU.exe (I'm using Windows 7, 64 bit) as downloaded from
the Microsoft SQL Server Express 2012 site. It's frustrating because I don't even get an error message from the installer on what the problem is.
To troubleshoot this, I have done the following:
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