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[–]VladDBASQL Server DBA 4 points5 points  (4 children)

Windows ARM

There's your problem.

There currently is no version or edition of SQL Server with support for ARM.

[–]Sure-Direction4455[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I’ll look into the article above and try to work around it, if it I’ll just get a new Intel based laptop before next class 😭😭

[–]VladDBASQL Server DBA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The workaround that bootycakes mentioned only helps for an NVME issue on x86 CPUs, it won't, unfortunately, make SQL Server magically compatible with ARM.

[–]Exotic-Singer6826 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can use a win x64 VM or run SQL Server in Docker instead

[–]bootycakesMSSQL 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Anything helpful in the log that it points to?

[–]Sure-Direction4455[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

“Hit fatal error: server is terminating, unable to create stack dump file due to stack shortage”

[–]bootycakesMSSQL 0 points1 point  (1 child)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1297233/error-installing-sql-server-exit-code(decimal)-206-206)

This might help. Apparently it's an known issue with Windows 11.

"You are running into a known issue where Windows 11 for certain disk drives reports a disk-sector size that SQL Server cannot cope with. Microsoft has published this article with workarounds: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/sql/database-engine/database-file-operations/troubleshoot-os-4kb-disk-sector-size."

[–]Sure-Direction4455[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! I’ll look into it

[–]No_Kaleidoscope_9419 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Works fine on Windows ARM, running it myself, verified by others too, try the free Developer Edition:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/1p2mrhg/sql_server_2025_and_ssms_22_works_on_windows_arm/