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Installing 2005 STD onto Windows 7 64-bit OS

  • February 27, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    #251444

    Hi everyone,

    I need to install 2005 Client/Management tools onto a laptop which has the Windows 7 *64-bit* operating system.

    Are there any issues I should be aware of?

    Oh, it has Visual Studio 2008 - should I uninstall that before installing the client tools?

    Thanks much. John

  • February 28, 2012 at 10:49 am

    #1452735

    Does anyone have any advice?

  • February 28, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    #1452815

    Might watch out for this: http://blog.trivadis.com/b/nicolasmueggler/archive/2008/01/17/installing-sql-server-2005-after-visual-studio-2008.aspx

    VS2008 has some SQL components in there to work with SQL Server instances, and those are rev'd after the SQL Server 2005 components.

  • February 28, 2012 at 2:36 pm

    #1452819

    If you're talking about Management Studio and Dev Studio (SSMS and BIDS), you shouldn't have any problem installing those on Win 7 64-bit. I've done that.

    If you want to install the SQL engine, I don't think Standard Edition will install on a desktop OS, but I might be thinking of Enterprise Edition. Dev Edition installs on a desktop OS without difficulty. Same for Express.

    But I've done the tools (SSMS and BIDS) on plenty of Win 7 64-bit machines. SQL 2005 or 2008.

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  • March 1, 2012 at 10:43 am

    #1453778

    Thanks Gsquared and SteveJones.

    I didn't uninstall anything.

    The BIDS and Mgmt Studio installed successfully, although I got several warnings of "Compatibility issues", thruout the install.

    Seems to be OK.

    John

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