Re: 2008 Management Studio??

I totally agree with Erland. SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition and Express Edition are installed on my Virtual Machines as well.

You should also note that these are CTP versions. Which means Community Technology Preview. You can consider this as BETA version. They are not full and RTM (Release to Manufacturing).

In a post in MSDN Forums an MSFT defines CTP as the following:
"CTP: Community Technology Preview, an early-release drop of a future product. The level of quality is pretty non-deterministic, definitely below beta quality, but we're working on process improvements to raise the quality level without reducing frequency of CTP."

--
Ekrem Önsoy



"Erland Sommarskog" <esquel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns9A1C7743FA76AYazorman@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Arthur Dent (hitchhikersguideto-news@xxxxxxxxx) writes:
Huh? I get what you say, but why the heck? That seems really odd,
considering they install in separate folders and hence, should be able to
coexists, and you can't even connect to the 2008 db anyway with the 2005
tools. It complains and says they can only be used to connect to 2000 or
2005 servers.

Someone at MS must've been a little distracted when they wrote that
installer. :-S

If you have Mgmt Studio 2005 Express installed on a machine and install
Mgmt Studio 2005, this does not work out. You cannot run both versions
of Mgmt Studio on the same machine. I guess it's something similar here,
except that the installer prevents it from even happening.

There is a fix for connecting to SQL 2008 from SQL 2005 Mgmt Studio,
available in Cumultative Update 5: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943656.

But I get a little worried when you say you install SQL 2008 on a machine
on which you already have SQL 2005. Not that that in itself is wrong, but
I hope this is not your day-to-day machine. I definitely recommend against
installing beta software on machines you don't want to reinstall. Not that
I know that the SQL 2008 CTP will wreck your machine, but it's not a game
of change I'm prepared to play myself. Personally, I install all betas on
virtual machines.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: WSS 3.0 question
    ... I followed the advise given in removing WSS 3.0 etc, ... the server is complaining that the SQL service(?) was tempered with or corrupt. ... I may just instal the SQL server as I was going eventuall use it anyway. ... If WSUS 3.0 is installed, I would suggest you uninstall it and then you install WSS 3.0. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: Trying to Move Group - SQL Instance Wont Start
    ... You can do a maintenance install and add the new nodes. ... "maintaining a failover cluster" for recovery from failure scenario 1. ... Senior SQL Infrastructure Consultant ... Microsoft SQL Server MVP ...
    (microsoft.public.sqlserver.clustering)
  • Re: Unable to Apply SP4 to SQL 2000 Cluster (new Node)
    ... While attempting to install SP4, it comes up immediately after I ... to be on one of the nodes that can bring SQL Server online and apply SP3a, ...
    (microsoft.public.sqlserver.clustering)
  • Re: Any help here???
    ... Well, for starters, I believe MDAC is unnecessary for .NET applications - as ... ADO.NET has its own SQL Server provider for data access. ... > trust me - all that's been done here was to install SP2 or upgrade of XP ...
    (microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet)
  • Re: how do I change the user install wizard to create user folder in different location?
    ... Some people read the instructions in such a way that they install both a new ... instance of sql, ... Never slight the SBS wizards. ... I reinstalled from scratch using the Dell OpenManage Server ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
Loading