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You have to have local admin right at the minimum. &nbsp;
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You have to have local admin right at the minimum.  

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how &nbsp;can I check that my user has local admin rights?
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how  can I check that my user has local admin rights?

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check if user name exist in administrators group . 
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check if user name exist in administrators group .

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You can run setup as administrator and you will get setup to be installed successfully.
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You can run setup as administrator and you will get setup to be installed successfully.

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Do I have to be an administator on my machine to install VS 2010 and SQL Server 2008? I dont think so but someone asked me that. (or have admin rights....log in wtih administrator userid/pwd to install?)
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Do I have to be an administator on my machine to install VS 2010 and SQL Server 2008? I dont think so but someone asked me that. (or have admin rights....log in wtih administrator userid/pwd to install?)

Do I have to be administrator to install sql server?

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.