i just installed sql server 2008 express in order to learn microsoft sql.
why should i install sql management studio express? is it much easier to use this GUI?
If you installed SQL Server 2008 Express and got a GUI, that is the SQL Management Studio Express which was included in the installation.
They have a seperate installation fo the Management Studio Express, which will install just the client GUI without the database server, in case you want to use it to connect to a SQL Server database running on another machine.
The default GUI for SQL Server is Management Studio, so you should already have it. If not, it is a free download here.
It gives you visual access to tables, stored procedure and many of the other features of SQL Server. Not to mention a nice SQL editor with syntax highlighting which also works as a SQL console.
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I have a server running SQL Server 2008 R2, and the Analysis and Integration services are running on that server.
I have on my Windows XP PC Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio.
In Visual Studio, when I go to open a new Analysis Services project, it lets me. However, if I try to open a new Integration Services project it doesn't let me and at the end it tells me that:
To install Integration Services, run SQL Server Setup and select
Integration Services.
So I locate the install media and run Setup and chose this option:
New installation or add features to an existing installation.
However, through the steps, it looks as if it's going to install the server engine on my PC, so I hesitated and stopped the process.
I looked around and found this one How to install SQL Server Management Studio 2008 component only that refers to being able to
install just the Client/Workstation Components
but I didn't see that so far.
I also found this: http://www.codefrenzy.net/2011/06/03/how-to-install-sql-server-2008-management-studio/ and she says to
Run the SQL Server Management Studio installer
What is she referring to? I don't see that in my media.
I wonder, wouldn't it be logical to start the install process with asking Client components or Server components or both?
please uninstall and reinstall SQL Server Management Studio(Client/Workstation Components) on client PC, in order to work with SSIS.
I installed Microsoft SQL Server 2008, but there is no SQL Server Management Studio icon.
All the tutorials I found on installing SQL Server 2008 say that in order to start it, I need to go Start -> All programs -> Microsoft SQL Server 2008 -> SQL Server Management Studio, but the icons in the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 are
Import and Export Data (32-bit)
folder Configuration Tools in which are three icons:
SQL Server Configuration Manager
SQL Server Error and Usage Reporting
SQL Server Installation Center
I have Windows 7.
I am not sure if Management Studio is installed by default, but I know there is an option to select it during setup. You may have just missed it. You may be able to go back into setup and tell the installer to install Management Studio.
Run the installer again and make sure you check the Management Tools as well.
BTW: what version have you installed? Express or Standard? Express comes in different downloads
If you have installed the Express version, there are two downloads. Express and Express with Tools. Check out this link for more information (it's R2, but 2008 was the same say): http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/editions/express.aspx
If you do not have Express or you do have the Express With Tools version, then when you install SQL Server (run the install package) you'll have a bunch of check boxes for what components to install. One of those is management tools. You'll need that selected to have SQL Server Management Studio installed with the instance (or a stand alone install).
I'm trying to create a new database using SQL Server 2008, and these are the steps that I follow:
Start -> Microsoft SQL Server 2008 ->
I get 2 options:
Configuration tools
Import and Export Data (32 bit).
So I choose Configuration tools and then get these options:
SQL Server Configuration Manager
SQL Server error and usage reporting
SQL Server Installation Center
When I click 1. SQL Server Configuration Manager and start SQL Server sqlExpress I get an error stating request failed or server did not respond in timely fashion.
Could you guys please help.
Usually if you don't see the Mgmt Studio option you forgot to select to install it during your SQL installation.
You need SQL Server with Tools download. When you install with that package you will have the ability to install Management Studio.
You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/editions/express.aspx
If you installed SQL Server Express alongside with Visual Studio, you're not getting Management Studio. You need to:
either download and install SQL Server Management Studio Express from the Microsoft web site
use Visual Studio as your frontend to SQL Server Express (works for most tasks - but not all)
install a full version of SQL Server and make sure to choose the Client Tools feature (that's the Management Studio) and use that to administer your .\SQLExpress instance
I'm working on a school project desktop application in c# using Visual Studio 2010 (.NET 4.0) and the application uses a SQL Server 2008 database that's running on a SQL Server instance on the development machine I'm working with.
My question is how do I package up the database with the c# project so that the application works no matter what machine I'm using it on regardless of whether the machine it's installed on has SQL Server installed or not?
Thank you.
use SQL Server Compact Edition (SQL CE)
If it's not a web application and it's making a direct use of the database, how is it going to work without an instance of SQL server running?
I'd make an .msi for the application and I'd write a SQL script for installing the database and populating it with the data.
You can use SQLServer tools for scripting the tables and the data.
I'm doing data migration between two SQL Server 2008 database using SSIS because I need to do some data transformation. I guess I need to use Business Intelligence Developement Studio which I have on my develop machine. But because I don't have SQL Server Standard Edition on my develop machine. The BIDS do not allow me to build the SSIS package. Is there any work around? Thanks a lot in advance!
When you installed BIDS, did you also install the client tools for SQL Server?
Alternatively, you could remote to the dev server and devlop the package directly on the server.
You would normally install SQL Server 2008 Developer Edition on your development box.
SQL Server 2008 Developer enables
developers to build and test
applications that run on SQL Server on
32-bit, ia64, and x64 platforms. SQL
Server 2008 Developer includes all of
the functionality of Enterprise
Edition, but is licensed only for
development, test, and demo use.