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Posted by Dan Guzman on 09/28/80 11:17
You might consider running Windows 2003 WE as a guest OS under Virtual PC.
This will allow devs to install the SQL tools on the host OS and use Windows
2003 WE virtual machine for testing under their MSDN license.
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Hope this helps.
Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP
<rdhatt@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi -
>
> The developers in my company are all switching to Windows 2003 Web
> Edition for their dev machines so they can better target the platform.
> Unfortunately we have discovered that we unable to install the SQL
> Server tools due (Query Analyzer, Profiler, etc) to the restriction
> that SQL Server is not allowed. The devs run their databases on a
> centeral server. Is there any workaround[1] to allow just the tools on
> 2003 WE?
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] Installing another version of 2003 (Standard, Enterprise) is not an
> good option since a) that isn't what our production servers run b) the
> admin doesn't want to give the devs the ability to do something stupid,
> like turn their desktop into a domain controller.
>
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