Re: SQL Server 2005 tools and SQL Sever 2008 tools on same system?

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Neufusion (mikeymiller@xxxxxxxxx) writes:
Can SQL Server 2005 Management Studio and Busines Intelligence Studio
be installed and used on the same system as SQL Server 2008 Management
Studio and Busines Intelligence Studio?

I recall that in earlier CTPs it was explicitly said that this does not
work. I don't think that I saw this in the Readme for the November CTP,
but you definitely want to double-check that.

Then again, keep in mind that SQL 2008 is still beta software, and don't
install it on a machine you don't want to flatten and reinstall. I strongly
recommend running betas on spare machines or virtual machines.

and for bonus points:
Can Visual Studio 2005 be installed and used on the same system as
Visual Studio 2008 ?

Obviously a VS forum is a better venue for that question. I have not
looked a single second on VS 2008, but I would be very surprised if
VS 2008 and VS 2005 can't co-exist. One of my computers has all versions
of VS from VS6 to VS 2005, a total of four of them.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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