Hi guys

My laptop has many software development components installed, say few of them are there from last many years (regardless whether I still need them) & such get me in to complicated situations (most of the times)

I’ve had Visual Studio 2013 Professional edition installed for last many years & recently I have switched to the community edition (which is as good as pro edition & costs nothing)

After upgrading my SQL Server 2017 (Developer Edition) on my home computer using 2019 ISO mounted media, I decided to upgrade the SQL Server 2017 on my laptop and it failed, miserably!

So I decided to do a fresh installation, that also failed. Luckily I came across the following thread:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server-support/sql-server-2019-installation-error-an-error-occurred-for-a/ba-p/998033#

While, there could be more reasons for the failure to install/upgrade your existing SQL server, make sure whether you have “Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client” already installed, if yes, remove it (Which might popup a warning stating the dependency of Local DB 2016 on the Native client, hence make sure that you know what you are doing)

Once the 2012 Native client uninstalled, try again to upgrade/fresh installation of SQL Server 2019.

You should be through!

regards,

rajesh