December 17, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Hi All,
Newbie sure describes me.....I have been an Access guy til now. Anyways, I had installed SQL Express with Tools over the weekend on my Windows 7 laptop. I haven't had the chance to do much with and now I'm getting SQL Developer Edition 2008. Should I uninstall Express first or will the Developer CD upgrade my existing installation ? :blink:
Thanks,
J.
Oxford, CT. USA.
December 17, 2009 at 1:24 pm
You can either uninstall Express, or install Dev Edition as a second instance. Personally, I'd uninstall Express.
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December 17, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Look at the following Link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393.aspx
According to that list, it says yes, but I haven't personally upgraded from Express 2008 to Developer Edition, it may end up being a side-by-side install.
If you have nothing up and working on the Express Edition, I would suggest uninstall it completely before installing Developer Edition.
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December 17, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Ok....sounds like an uninstall is the ticket.
I don't have my home laptop here with me but I remember a few different things were installed...like Visual Studio Express. Should I be uninstalling all the individual components or just the Express engine ?
December 17, 2009 at 1:49 pm
I'd uninstall the whole package. Dev Edition comes with the same things, but with more powerful versions. Management Studio, for example, is much more limited in Express than in Dev.
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December 17, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Gus is right, uninstall all components related to SQL Server and Visual Studio, since they would all be installed by Developer Edition.
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December 24, 2009 at 10:12 pm
I agree too. Dev Edition has *everything*, it's a really sweet deal for learning (and developing) SQL Server!
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December 25, 2009 at 6:15 am
I was able to uninstall Express and install Developer 2008 on my home laptop.
It's very nice if not a little intimidating..... 🙂
Fighting now with IT at work to have Developer Edition pushed to my work laptop.
It's really frustrating that IT hates MS Access and won't support it but when you ask for tools to move at least the back end tables to SQL Server they get all flustered about letting me play with their toys as I am not IT. I feel like saying, "Well what is it ? Do you want me to move away from Access or not ?????" Trouble is they want to have complete control over everything including the FE which I plan to keep in Access at least for the near term. :angry:
December 25, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Heh. Man I hear that...
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December 26, 2009 at 5:46 am
I'll be honest although I am looking forward to learning SQL Server and Visual Studio......it Access worked better with multiple users over a wide network I'd stick with Access. I work for an extremely large healthcare company though and the network is inconsistent depending on geography and other variables. I have a 700MB Access DB with approx. 25 users in CT & NY where the main table users work in is 300K rows and it works pretty well. However, I have a 30MB database with users in CA, CO, & IL and it's a dog....
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