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Today while installing SQL Server 2017 on my PC I got this popup on the Installation Progress tab. Earlier I had installed SQL Server 2017 but had to uninstall it for some reason. Now today while re-installing it I was getting this error.

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Setup
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The following error has occurred:

VS Shell installation has failed with exit code 1638.

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BUTTONS: OK
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… and once you click OK, the installation resumes, but ends in error again, with following error details:

Error details:
§ Error installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable
VS Shell installation has failed with exit code 1638.
Error code: 1638
Log file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\140\Setup Bootstrap\Log\20180824_225215\VCRuntime140_x64_Cpu64_1.log
Visit https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkId=20476&ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000 &ProdVer=14.0.1000.169&EvtType=VCRuntime140_x64%40Install%400×1638 to get help on troubleshooting.

Resolution:

– As per the second error, the SQL Server setup tries to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable, but as I already have Visual Studio 2017 installed, thus it is failing to install a previous version of VC++, so you need to:
   1. Uninstall Visual Studio 2017.
   2. Install SQL Server 2017
   3. Install Visual Studio 2017 back again.

– Or, rather than uninstalling whole VS 2017, you can simply:
   1. Uninstall the VC++ 2017 Redistributable
   2. Install SQL Server 2017
   3. Install the VC++ 2017 Redistributable (download: x86, x64)