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How to run a local copy of SQL server? 1

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sjh

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Oct 29, 2001
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Hi,
I need to test my application with a SQL Server at home. And I can't connect to a test server at my company. Is it possible to run SQL server locally or mimic it somehow? Do I need to install the SQL Server on my machine to make it run locally?


Thanks!
 
Yes you can install the personal or developer edition on non-server o/s.
Developer would be best.

You can also downl;oad and install msde free of charge but you don't get the client utilities.

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Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.
DTS can be used in a similar way.
Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy.
 
Hi,
Thank you for your response! I will download the developer edition. The client utilities are only needed in server-client environment, correct?

Thanks again!
 
If you want to use enterprise manager, query analyser, ... they are part of client utilities.
They will get installe d with the developer edition. MSDE is the only pc edition that doesn't include them.

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Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.
DTS can be used in a similar way.
Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy.
 
You don't need enterprise manager for anything but query analyser is handy. You would have to access MSDE via osql which is a bit of a pain.

Do you have an MSDN subscription? Developer edition will be on that.

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Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.
DTS can be used in a similar way.
Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy.
 
If you don;t have an MSDN subsctriptiona dn dont; want to pay for developer edition, every Enterprise and standard edition of SQL server comes with the peronsal edition.

NOte tat you will not be able to do everything that enterprise or standard edition do unless you have a server operating system. I know fulltext search for instance does not work on personal edition.

Questions about posting. See faq183-874
 
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