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.
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Planning to install SQL Server Developer edition. Should I remove SQL Server Express that came with Visual Studio before installing it? Can they work together? Is there any reason not to remove SQL Server Express?
Visual Studio installs SQL Express LocalDB, which provides on-demand SQL Instances in the user's desktop session. The SQL Server Data Tools requires this, and it's handy also for other development and test scenarios.
Also there's no reason to remove it.
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.
I try to understand the difference between SQL Server Management Studio and SQL Server Management Studio Express
The "full" SQL Server Management Studio is the management GUI (graphical user interface) to work with a SQL Server database and is included in all the paid editions of SQL Server.
For the free SQL Server Express edition, SQL Server Management Studio Express can be downloaded for free from the Microsoft web site (or is include, as well, in the "Express with Tools" edition). As far as I know, as of SQL Server 2012, the two versions are essentially the same and don't have any differences in terms of features or capabilities they offer
Microsoft makes money from licensed SQL Server - it does not make money from Express. So everything about express is going to be crippled in some way.
SSME (SQL Server Management Express) does not have help and does not support any features SQL Server Express does not support - Reporting Services,SQL Server Agent, Analysis Services etc. If you, or your company, cannot afford a licensed version you are stuck with Express but don't expect a go cart to be as good as a car.
Hello everyone i have got a project to migrate from SQLAnywhere 11 to any new relational databases for our ship crew web application.The reasons for migrating is cost and support issues.I will need to choose a database which is free and has all features as SQLAnywhere 11.0.
Here is the list of Questions i want to know about SQL Server 2008 R2 express.
Do we have any migration utility to move from SQL Anywhere 11 to SQL Server 2008 R2 express.
How easy is deployment of SQL Server 2008 R2 express from install shield MSI.
Alternative methods to migrate from SQLAnyhere 11 to SQL server 2008 R2 express.
Do management tools come free with express addition. I should be able to defragment and restore the database.
Thank you
There is a SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) for Sybase (v 5.1 was released just this week), but I am not familiar enough with SQL Anywhere to assure you whether, or how well, it works:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssma/archive/2011/07/12/announcing-sql-server-migration-assistant-ssma-v-5-1.aspx
Deployment of SQL Server Express is relatively easy, but I haven't done any work recently incorporating this into a more complex installer.
If you use Express w/Tools or Express w/Advanced Services, they come with Management Studio Express. You can also download this separately:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=22985
Note that Management Studio Express is missing some of the SSMS functionality, such as managing agent, so if you have to manage other editions you may be better off investing $49 (or less, depending on vendor) into the developer edition, which comes with the full version of SSMS.
Do visual studio 2010 include already Sql Server instance, or I need to install Sql Server developer edition to develop an application that need a Sql Server db.
If it installs a Sql Server express edition, it this enough or it's better to have Sql Server developer edition?
I would second that installing the "full" SQL Server Development Edition makes sense if you do serious database development.
However you can have both installed side by side, and having SQL Server Express is very useful for one reason - it supports placing database files in the App_Data folder of ASP.NET applications. While I don't do this for my own projects, it's a very nice feature for demos or open source applications you download from the web: just unzip, start VS, hit F5, and you have a running solution including database. Without SQL Express, you first have to move the MDF file, attach the database, set up user rights, replace the connection strings etc...
The Visual Studio 2010 installer gives you the option of installing SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. This edition of SQL Server is good enough for development purposes but is not intended for production use.
I think the size limitation is not the main issue.
In Sql Server 2008 you have some features in Sql Server Management Studio that aren't available in the Express management Studio or the Express database engine, like:
- suggesting the table and column names (in Query Window)
- Sql profiler
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