I want to purchase a licensed version of Standard Edition of SQL 2005. Right
now, I am running trial version of SQL 2005. Do I have to uninstall it to
install the Standard Edition OR can I just enter the license key to have the
functionality of the Standard version? Please let me ...

I basically want to 'step through' t-sql 2000 statements and I have tried
the several methods. Can you tell me what  would you suggest? I have tired
the following methods:
1. I have a question about setting up visual studio.net 2005 professional

I wanted to know if the following setup would work and/or if you have any
other suggestions:
(**Note: I am asking this question since I am currently the only .net
programmer at my new company. I have the professional version of visual

I'm building a data warehouse server using clustered SQL 2005(x64). We
have a known disk I/O performance bottleneck in our current SAN, but
my new servers have reasonable CPU and RAM. My question is, would I
benefit from multiple instances, giving multiple tempdb workspaces, or

We have a dedicated SQL server with C (OS), D (data) and E (log) drives.
Because our database is tempdb heavy, I thought I could spread tempdb to C
and E drives despite the fact C hosts OS and E hosts Log files. This, of
course, raised some concerns amoung my colleagues since C ...

I am new to SQL 2005 so please bear with me.  I have been told the SQL server
page file is best located on it's own RAID 1 partition or on the log file
partition.  I was under the impression that SQL uses the system page file.  
Can someone tell me if SQL does have it's own page ...

I am a programmer, not a DBA, and have to install Sql Server 2005.  We have
a network guy who is going to be part of the Sql Server 2005 installation
project.  
We just had Win 2003 Server installed on a box to be used for Sql Server.  

I'm trying to upgrade an existing installation of SQL Server 2000 Ent. to
2005 Standard.
The installer will not complete the upgrade because the original
installation of 2000 came from an MSDN subscription.

Iam preparing for SQL Exams .. Please can you help me in this question
I have a sql server installation question .
I have space on my harddisk (C:) Operating System  = 12 GB
other  partions hardisks > 60 GB  (D:)

I have a C# application which creates and populates a SQL Server
Express database.  I then copy the database and log files and move it
to a different directory where I would like to use SQL Server
Management Studio Express to view the results.  Problem is, when I try

I mistakenly deleted the default instance MSSQLSERVER Database Engine
service.  How do I correct this?
I tried to reinstall it, but the install says the instance already exists.
I tried to uninstall it and it seems to go without error, but when I look at

I asked to identify the alternative methods to provide a consolidated
data view for one of my clients across two set of database servers.
The consolidated view of the data would be used for enquiry and
reporting purposes and should appear to them as a single database.

I'm making a installer for SQL Server Express 2005 sp2, from command line
and I need that sqlBrowserAccount and sqlAccount run with the LocalSystem
account.
How can I specify that? There is any diference if I use more than one

I have a question:
1. What are the roles of a Production SQL Server DBA?
Please answer me   as soon as possible as i need to know before my
Interview. I have my interview tomorrow.

Hi...
I have a question, I need to have on my laptop the full collection of
client, management and development tools for MS SQL 2005 (I use MS SQL 2000
as well), but I need to have the SQL 2005 Express Edition loaded on my