Uninstalling the SQL Server database

If you uninstall the SQL Server database with the Remove function on the Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs page, you might fail to uninstall the database (the setup.exe process hangs) because of operating system configuration problems. As an alternative, you can use the Change function to uninstall the database, as shown in Figure 58.

Figure 58: Uninstalling SQL Server 2008 R2 with the Change function