Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sun Nov 20 15:33:47 CST 2011
Was the only instance of SQL Server in " Services" named "MSSMLBIZ" ? If so, it was installed by Business Contact Manager as a named instance and correctly removed. -- Stuart On 20 Nov 2011 at 13:34, William Benson wrote: > A minor beef, I wonder if others have shared this experience. > > When uninstalling Outlook Business Contact Manager 2007, the uninstaller > also removed SQL Server 2005 Express. > > I have no way to know when that item had been installed, but it looks to > have been permanently removed by the uninstaller, sure enough. > > Any thoughts on why Microsoft would do that? I thought SQL Server Express > was a free Sql Server engine? > > I imagine there are places I can download it from again, but why would > Microsoft put me through this hassle I wonder, just because I was taking > some other softwars off my machine? > > I recognize that *maybe* had I selected Custom and made choices to keep > certain items and remove only certain items, I might have had the option to > retain SQL Server 2005 Express, however my feeling on this is that there is > no way I would have no reason to presuppose (and didn't) I was removing an > unrelated product during a removal of Business Contact Manager for Outlook. > > -- > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >