I am using sql server 2008 R2 express edition,it only supports 10 Gb DB space.
how can i get know how much space is used and how much free space i have balance,i have tried sp_spaceused, but i didn't get clear answer.
i think i have 2 DB's.
and if i want to upgrade 2008 R2 express edition to 2008 R2 standard edition what is the procedure?, can i upgrade directly or need to take backup and uninstall express edition and then need to install standard edition?.
is that anything i need to pay (for license) to upgrade to standard edition?
Standard edition will require you to pay a fee fro licensing. As far as upgrading you can just install standard edition without uninstalling express. I would then take a backup for you express database and restore it to the standard edition then uninstall express once everything is working. As far as the space used Right click on your DB name in SSMS and select properties and that will tell you how much space that particular DB is using.
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I have Visual Studio 2015 Professional Edition installed on my computer and I would like to start developing applications with SQL instead of MS Access.
What exactly do I need to install in order to achieve that? Do I need a full version of SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio?
Should I just install MySQL instead? I'm a bit lost... Thank you for your time and help.
SQL Server Express Edition (with tools) is free, and perfect for development purposes. If you need more advanced features then you can use SQL Server Developer Edition which is very cheap and has all features included in the advanced versions of SQL Server. The licence does not permit you to run it in a live environment though.
How can one upgrade from Developer edition to Standard edition without uninstalling/re-installing the entire software (currently have SQL Server 2012 SP1 Developer Edition installed) or is it not possible to do?
Thank you
Update: I am aware of Edition Upgrade but does it work with going from DE to SE?
Have developed a small Windows application using SQL Server as its database.
I need to give the installation pack to my customer, and include the required SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.
How can I distribute my database without including Management Studio?
You client is going to have to pay a good amount of money to licence the Enterprise version.
You can either:
give them the SQL2005 Express (which you can redistribute)
get them to use Microsoft's Web Platform Installer
You could also use SQLExpress 2008, the client can download either the x86 or x64 editions via this page. You can't stop them from getting SQL Management Studio if they want to (it can be found here), although i'm unsure if the express version has the query analyzer.
Instead of SQL Server enterprise edition you can give Express edition. Express edition is free to re-distribute and use.
There are 3 installation files in SQL Server 2005 express.
1. Windows Installer
2. SQL Server 2005 express
3. Managment studio express
In your case you can install the first two. However SQL Server can be accessed by command prompt also.
SQL Server management studio is another application and does not come bundled with MS Sql server.
SQL pack should only contain SQL Server express edition and not enterprise edition as that is not free and your client will have to pay for it.
I have a SQL Server Express edition with management studio and i'm trying to use the enterprise disks ("SQL Server 2005" Enterprise Edition 32-bit Server Applications") and I can't get it to give me the option of installing the server components or a server instance. What am I missing?
You can't install the server tools for Enterprise edition because you need to actually install the server version. You can't add enterprise tools to the Express edition. You need a brand new installation of the full blown Enterprise edition.
If you want the server tools, you need to install the right version, meaning in your case, the Enterprise edition. I don't know if you can do it side-by-side as a new instance (and I'm not even sure if you can install it on a non-server version of Windows.)
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I found the answer to the question of whether you can install it in a non-server version of Windows here.
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However, if you mean the CLIENT side tools, so that you can create SSIS packages for a SQL Server on another machine (meaning a true server), without having to have Enterprise edition on your development pc, see this article.
What is the best (or THE) way to change my SQL Express 2008 (with advance...) installation to a 2008 Developer edition?
I need to keep the databases, along with the logins and so on.
I need to upgrade because, I Want to use all the features in TFS 2010.
Do I have to make backups of all the data and uninstall express - install developer?
Is there a quicker way?
SOLVED:
In the SQL Server Installation Center, there a Edition Upgrade options found under Maintenance. The only thing is that you have to choose processor type as x86 (as Express is only x86) in the options in the Installation Center. Now my SQL Server is developer.
We had to do the same thing at one time. I think we simply backed up our database(s) and the master and msdb databases as a precaution, to restore if we had to, which I don't think we did.