Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition 2005 CD/DVD

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X64/IA64 ENG CD/DVD

Product Specification

Binding:: CD-ROM
Brand:: Microsoft
EAN:: 0882224091527
Feature:: Buy with confidence!
Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition 2005 Win32 English CD/DVD
Format:: CD-ROM
Label:: Microsoft Software
Manufacturer:: Microsoft Software
Model:: E32-00575
Platform:: No Operating System
ProductGroup:: Software
Publisher:: Microsoft Software
ReleaseDate:: 2005-11-28
Studio:: Microsoft Software
Title:: Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition 2005 CD/DVD
UPC:: 882224091527
MPN:: 1136717

Customer Reviews

Solid product - Great Price

The developer edition, to my surprise, included all of the features for me to develop enterprise level Business Intelligence projects and do some DB design work too.It integrates well with Visual Studio 2005.When connected online, installation is easy...and it installs the prerequisites for you....

1/30/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

Good product, bad install, stupid licensing

You cannot use this product with Visual Web Developer Express.It makes you uninstall VWD(and uninstall then re-install .net 2.0) and once you install SQL 2005 you can't install VWD or any of the express products.So your choices for asp.net developers areA:Buy VS 2005 pro which comes with a developer copy of SQL 2005 in which case you wouldn't need this individual copy.B:Use VWD express and SQL 2005 express, but without any of the admin tools for SQL 2005.In short, buy this developer copy only if...

1/3/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

Very Buggy

This edition will be great, once microsoft finishes debugging it! Wait till some service packs come out before committing your critical data.Management studio dialogs are too big to fit on the screen.I use 1024 x 768.Do they QA at all?I constantly have to resize the dialog to reach to ok button.Editing the schema of large tables is not practical in management studio, since it uses temp tables to do every modification. Takes forever to complete, if it does n't time out and roll back first.You have...

12/26/2005 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

The easiest gets better

As a long time user of SQL Server, I was glad when Microsoft finally moved away from Sybase and started developing SQL Server on their own. Unfortunately, SQL Server 7 took a bit too long to finish and I was stuck with SQL Server 6.5.For my Enterprise work, however, I had to move to Oracle. To embed custom code, other than T-SQL code, I was also forced to move to Oracle and Java. There was no facility in SQL Server.With the 2000 release, SQL Server finally became a contender. With far better tools...

11/15/2005 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews