Most VMware administrators will know that it’s possible to run VMware vCenter on one server and have the vSphere SQL database on another server. This is a perfectly acceptable configuration and, in anything but smaller...
Read MoreTo continue on with the theme of unattended installation-related posts lately, what if you want to install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition in unattended mode? SQL Server 2000 had the ability to save the installation into a file...
Read MoreA lot of my articles make use of or mention SQL Server Express, the light and cut-down and FREE version of Microsoft’s flagship database product Microsoft SQL Server. One of the features of the full and very expensive...
Read More» If you’re looking for instructions on how to do an unattended install of SQL Server 2008 Express R2, please use the search function on this site – the other article is easy to find, I promise. On the...
Read MoreI’ve built one of my test servers with SQL Server Express 2008 w/ Advanced Services. On a whole load of our servers I use SQL Express for local installations and SQLCMD.EXE works well as a good way to run scheduled...
Read MoreIf you need to install SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express on Windows Vista you might receive an error like the screenshot below. This is due to the new Vista feature called UAC. The fix is simple & there are 2 ways of...
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