I hope I'm not being flippant, but I have done a few installs now, and its usualy just a matter of pointing out that Moodle works best with MySql and you will do the install as part of Moodle... then run!
You can have more than one database in the mix, a dedicated mysql server shouldn't pose any problems...
Installing and upgrading help
Porting to mssql
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