[dba-VB] SPAM-LOW: Re: SQL Server 2008 install

Max Wanadoo max.wanadoo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 11:58:41 CST 2010


If you, for example, download DNN from here
:http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/Default.aspx

You get tons of tools with it incl SQL Server 2008 etc but no management
stuff.

Max
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:36 PM
To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
Subject: Re: [dba-VB] SPAM-LOW: Re: SQL Server 2008 install

2005 stuff does not work with 2008 AFAICT.  And I too ran around in circles
looking for an express edition of 2008.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Max Wanadoo wrote:
> Yes, but is that the 2008 Express edition?
> 
> I couldn't find one and MS's web site said to use the 2005 Express and 
> that was incompatible...
> 
> No quite sure if we are talking about the same thing, but it is the 
> management console which allow the SA to change people, passwords, 
> access etc, that sort of thing.
> 
> Max
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte 
> Foust
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:26 PM
> To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
> Subject: Re: [dba-VB] SQL Server 2008 install
> 
> The 2008 management tools are better anyhow, and they work in both 
> 2008 and 2005.
> 
> Charlotte Foust
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:43 AM
> To: Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues.
> Subject: Re: [dba-VB] SQL Server 2008 install
> 
> ..and I think you will find that the management console for 2005 will 
> not work in 2008.
> 
> Not absolutely sure about that, but...
> 
> max
> 
> 
> On 11 March 2010 13:34, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well THAT was a PITA.  I installed SQL Server 2008 on my server 
>> awhile back.  Since then my dev laptop, which was running SQL Server 
>> Express 2005, could not connect to the databases on the server.
>>  So last night late I decided to install SQL Server 2008 on the dev
> laptop.
>>  First of all, it ain't
>> fast.  Second it kept failing with this warning and that warning.  In 
>> the end I had to completely uninstall all the old SQL Server stuff.
>> It simply did NOT LIKE Express
>> 2005 and wouldn't upgrade or
>> clean install over it.
>>
>> Since a complete uninstall, the 2008 install seems to be proceeding 
>> smoothly.
>>
>> --
>> John W. Colby
>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
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