Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/02/06 00:53

Ma³y Piotruœ (maly_piotrus@poczta.onet.pl) writes:
> and I tried to run them sequentially. After installing SQLEXPR.EXE
> I had impression that I have little icons in Start menu (comparing to
> my SQL Server 2000); I have a submenu:
>
> Microsoft SQL Server 2005 / Configuration Tools
> SQL Server Configuration Manager
> SQL Server Error and Usage Reporting
> SQL Server Surface Area Configuration
>
> I would like to have sth like Enterprise Manager (to see Northwind
> database) and Query Analyzer (to query Northwind).
> So I decided to run SQLEXPR.EXE again: I see a report:

The SQL Express download does not come with any query tool. There is
however a separate download for SQL Server Mangagement Studio Express,
which a slimmed down version of the tool that comes with the other
editions.

You find it at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d82afbd59-57a4-455e-a2d6-1d4c98d40f6e%26DisplayLang%3den


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

Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
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Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx

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