Re: n00b Question Re: MSDE SQL Server Install

From: newgenre (newgenre_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:17:18 GMT

It was Desktop Edition.

"M K" <mark@nospamcenturycolor.com> wrote in message
news:252001c427c3$54b21740$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Sorry if I sound to simple for you, I'm not sure what your
> experience is, and this is how I understand it best.)
>
> SQL Server runs as a Service. That's an app that runs in
> the background.
>
> You can have more that one 'Instance' of SQL Server
> running at a time. (The number allowed depends on the
> version you install.) This allows, let's say, your Website
> database running in one instance to crash without having
> your accounting db (on another instance) going down also.
>
> On each instance of SQL Server, you can have a number of
> Databases.
>
> Hopes that clears some things up. Did you install MSDE (MS
> SQL Server Desktop Edition) or SQL Server
> Standard/Enterprise/Personal edition?
>
> MSDE does not install some management tools that make
> things real easy.

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