

Next Step: Use the following information to resolve the error, and then try the setup process again.Ĭomponent name: SQL Server Database Engine Services Instance FeaturesĮrror description: The SQL Server feature 'SQL_Engine_Core_Inst' is not in a supported state for repair, as it was never successfully configured. Reason for failure: An error occurred during the setup process of the feature. Configuration file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20140402_164618\ConfigurationFile.ini Detailed results: Error help link: Feature: SQL Client Connectivity Status: Passed Feature: SQL Client Connectivity SDK Status: Passed Rules with failures:Īttempt at repair didn’t entirely work, though at least a few more features appeared ok afterwards, seems the features that failed weren’t really installed to begin with. Check the SQL Server error log for potential causes. Component name: SQL Server Database Engine Services Instance Features Component error code: 0x851A0019 Error description: Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed. Next Step: Use the following information to resolve the error, uninstall this feature, and then run the setup process again. Error help link: Feature: SQL Server Replication Status: Failed: see logs for details Reason for failure: An error occurred for a dependency of the feature causing the setup process for the feature to fail.

The error logs aren’t a lot of help, typically you get something like this: Configuration file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20140402_153752\ConfigurationFile.ini Detailed results: Feature: Database Engine Services Status: Failed: see logs for details Reason for failure: An error occurred during the setup process of the feature.
#SQL 2012 EXPRESS INSTALL INSTALL#
Once you click OK, installation proceeds to the end and shows (in my case) what actually did not install correctly, along with links to the error log: SQL Express 2012, SQL Express 2012 SP1, SQL Enterprise 2012, SQL Express 2014 or SQL Enterprise 2014 will all generate this same message:

(for the impatient, skip down a page or two for the fix) Check the SQL Server error log for potential causes.” … “Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed.
#SQL 2012 EXPRESS INSTALL PC#
If you try doing the out of the box install for SQL Express 2014, SQL Express 2012 (or for that matter SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014) and just want to set up a simple development PC then you will probably get the same error I did:
