sql-serversql-server-2022

How to install Components (client tools connectivity and Client tools backwards Compatibility) in SQL Server 2022


I'm installing SQL Server 2022 but I could not select components shown below:

I need these components for my application. How to install these components?

They could be installed in SQL Server 2019, but cannot be installed in SQL Server 2022.

Can anybody help me?

This is the SQL Server 2022 version:

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And this is SQL Server 2019:

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Solution

  • I think they've just been unbundled from the installer, and you need to have the client tools packages installed separately, or available for the installer to bootstrap.

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/download-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver16

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/oledb/download-oledb-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver16