Re: How to use SQL Server Express

Thanks.

I had never heard of SQL Server Management Studio Express before - but there you go !

justin wrote:

As for a GUI, you probably want to download SQL Server Management
Studio Express. I think it can be used to SQL Server or SQL Server
Express. It's a free download from Microsoft, although it sometimes
takes a while to find on their download list.

As for your modifications, there shouldn't be many. Microsoft has a
few special tweaks to SQL but I think it's fairly similar. I do not
have experience with MySQL though, so I don't know. My suggestion is
to use Management Studio Express to create some sample SQL statements.
It will show you the SQL it creates. Take a look at it and see if you
can notice any differences.

Hope that helps.

On Feb 5, 10:14 am, Bit Byte <r...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just downloaded SQL Server Express (along with Visual Web Developer).
However I am at a loss as to how to use it - since it appears to have
installed only a service/server configurator (IIRC) - and there is no
available documentation (with the install).

I have a lot of experience with other RDBMs (Sybase, MySQL, Oracle and
PostgreSQL), so all I need is an interface (either command line or GUI),
so I can create a database and start writing test db schemas to test
with this db.

Questions are:

1). What interface is used to interact with SQL Server Express ?
2). I have an existing schema which uses MySQL dialect of SQL - what
modifications do I need to make to be able to create my db in SQL Server ?



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