Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit

Brief Description

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit provides additional tools and resources for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services.

Overview

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit (SQL Server Express Toolkit) provides additional tools and resources for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services. The SQL Server Express Toolkit contains SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express, a graphical management tool, and Business Intelligence Development Studio, a creation and editing environment for reports using SQL Server Reporting Services.

The SQL Server Express Toolkit contains these two components:

SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express Edition – Easily manage SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services database instances with this free, easy-to-use graphical management tool.

Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) – Create and edit reports for SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS). BIDS provides the ability to create and edit Reporting Services projects that are reporting on local relational data in local SQL Server Express databases.

For more information about SQL Server Express Toolkit, including other editions and downloadable components now available, see the SQL Server Express page on MSDN.

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2

Computer with Intel or compatible Pentium III 500 MHz or faster processor (1 GHz or faster is recommended.)
Minimum of 512 MB of RAM (1 GB or more is recommended.)
600 MB of available hard disk space

Note: There is no support in this release for Windows XP Embedded Edition.

Warning: You must remove any beta or Community Technology Preview (CTP) versions of SQL Server Management Studio Express from your system before installing this package. Not doing so will cause installation of this package to fail.

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Instructions

Note: You must have administrative rights on the computer to install SQL Server Express Toolkit.

Step 1:

the 32-bit version of Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

the 64-bit version of Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Step 2:

Download

Run

Save

Step 3:

Readme

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Additional Information

Get updated product documentation for SQL Server Express Toolkit from the SQL Server 2005 Books Online.

Download samples and sample databases from the Microsoft Download Center.

SQL Server Express Toolkit is supported on x64 and EMT64 systems in Windows On Windows (WOW). SQL Server Express Toolkit is not supported on IA64 systems.

If you have questions about SQL Server Express Toolkit, visit the SQL Server Express forums on MSDN.

If you want to remove SQL Server 2005, we recommend that you use Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel. If Add or Remove Programs does not uninstall SQL Server 2005, you can follow the steps to manually uninstall an instance of SQL Server 2005 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.