In this post you see how to download SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition for free legally.īut, what is the difference between SQL Server Developer Edition and any other editions? Well, generally speaking, the Developer edition has all features of an Enterprise edition, but, it’s not for commercial use. If you search for it on the Internet you’ll quickly find out that it is NOT that straightforward. So we should be able to download SQL Server 2016 Developer Edition for free legitimately. “Download Media”: To download S QL Server setup files and install them laterĪ while ago Microsoft decided to provide Developer edition of SQL Server 20 for free.
“Custom”: You go through SQL Server installation wizard to choose what you want to install.“Basic”: To quickly install basic features like SQL Server Database Engine.By clicking the link you’ll download an executable file “SQLServer2016-SSEI-Dev.EXE” produced by Microsoft that gives you three options: Update2: Click here to utilise the SQL Server installer. (Thanks to “David Shannon” for pointing this out.) Now you can find it under “Downloads” tab, under “Servers” section. Update1: As per April 2018, the process has slightly changes since I wrote this blog post.
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