Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/02/05 00:10

Akinja (akinja@sbcglobal.net) writes:
> If you have a copy of SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition Eval copy, you can
> load it from there. The tools will not expire, just make sure you only
> select client tools and not the database engine

And if you don't have it, you can download it from www.microsoft.com.

There might be two issues:
1) License may not permit connecting to production environments.
2) It used to be that service packs can be applied to EvalEdition. I
don't know if this still is the case.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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