Installing SQL Server Express 2008

We are documenting herewith our own esperiences installing and/or upgrading SQL Server Express instances in various flavours.

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Uninstalling an existing SQLExpress 2008 instance

Current goal: removing an existing SQLExpress 2008 instance from the local machine.

To fulfill the requirements, we have to access the Add remove programs system applet, select the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 entry and perform a remove installed components operation
Add Remove programs - remove instance

The traditional configuration checker is activated and, when finished, we are able to select the features we like to uninstall
Select instance

Once we specified the instance we are dealing with, we are required to specify the feature(s) to uninstall
Select Features

A removal rules check will be performed, and when sucesfully finished, we are reported with the traditional summary of the operation in progress
Ready to remove

A rapid execution ends with a confirmation and a removal completation dialog
Removal completed succesfully

We can verify, at file system level, the uninstallation has been performed inspecting the instance's related folder, where all binaries related sub-directories have been removed and the only evidence of a SQL Server installation are the left over folders containing user's related files (if any), like database files, log files and the like.
File system