



Starting with BarTender 2019 R3, you'll receive the following message if BarTender fails to install SQL Server: However, there are some rare instances where the SQL Server installation fails and you must troubleshoot the installation and install it manually. In the vast majority of cases, this works flawlessly.

The BarTender installation wizard attempts to install SQL Server Express silently during BarTender installation by default unless otherwise configured (Follow this article on how to install BarTender without SQL server). If you are having problems installing SQL Server on your system, please first download the latest revision of BarTender 2019 or be on a later version of BarTender before proceeding or follow this article on how to install BarTender without SQL server.
