SQL2005 and SQL2008 should not be installed side by side
I was amused when I came across a KB article for an
issue I am facing. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961638
It states that
"However it is advised that client tools like SQL Server Management Studio
2005 and SQL Server Management Studio 2008 be installed on separate systems. "
Nice, so are MS going to buy me a seperate machine to run Management Studio
for SQL 2005. I thought the reason they changed SSMS.exe was partly to enable
side by side installs.
Given I'm getting all sorts of versioning issues with other tools it does
seem that all things are not good when 2005 and 2008 are installed side by
side.
[Followup]
To fix this I tried all things and in the end I un installed SQL 2008 tools
and reinstalled them. That seemed to fix the issue. Just need to apply SP1
now.
[Update 28/4/2008]
I've been told that if you have SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 installed side by side
then one of the project systems won't.This is a known bug, I wonder if it will
be fixed?
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