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SQL 2008 Express Edition available for download

sqldbatips — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:37:00 GMT

The basic version of SQL 2008 Express is not available for download, the other editions (SQL 2008 Express with Tools and SQL 2008 Express with Advanced Services) are coming soon. Don't forget you will need to have installed .NET 3.5 SP1 and Windows Installer 4.5 before installing SQL 2008 Express. Download links below

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 RTM download now available

sqldbatips — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:05:00 GMT

As mentioned in a previous post, parts of SQL 2008 require you to have Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM installed if you had previously installed Visual Studio 2008 prior to installing SQL 2008. Today, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 RTM is available for download so no more execuses for not installing SQL 2008! There is an excellent post by Bob Ward on the PSS SQL Engineers blog explaining all the various permutations of SQL 2008/VS 2008 here

Download links below

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 released

sqldbatips — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:48:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 has now been released and you can download it here (be warned it's fairly hefty at 431MB). Scott Guthrie has some good installation tips on his blog.