Susan Harkins
ssharkins at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 13:33:35 CDT 2011
Thanks John! Susan H. > What is the server that will host SQL Server. This needs to be asked > particularly if you are installing SQL Server onto the server. Windows > Server 2000 cannot support SQL Server 2008 or beyond. This has to do with > not supporting the .Net frameworks required. So for Windows 2000 and > below, SQL Server 2005 is a good as it gets. > > Know that SQL Server 2008 Express is actually the 2008 R2. This matters > IF any other SQL Server 2008 instances are running that are not 2008 R2 > because the two versions are *not* compatible. 2008R2 can handle the > non-R2 files (and backups) but 2008 cannot handle R2 files and backups. > > Expect to learn SQL Server security! >