Posted by cjayp on 08/30/06 02:32

Thanks, I ended up installing Personal Edition, due to inability to get
DE to install correctly from only copy I had.


Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> (cjayp@yahoo.com) writes:
> > I have installed SQL Sever 2000 on my Windows XP Pro machine from the
> > Enterprise Edition setup and it prompts you that only the client tools
> > can be installed. I wanted to have a local database as well So what
> > install should I have used to do so. Any information would greatly be
> > appreciated.
>
> Enterprise Edition runs on server operating systems only. That is,
> Windows 2003 or Windows 2000 Server.
>
> To have a local database on your workstation, you need to install either
> Developer Edition or Personal Edition. Of these Developer Edition is
> surely the better choice, as it has all the features of Enterprise
> Edition. It's just the licensing which is different.
>
>
> --
> Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
>
> 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

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