Does Installing SSMS stop the database

• peteroc

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  December 10, 2012 at 10:33 pm

  #271816

  Hi,

  I've got a SQL Server Express 2005 installed on a server for vmware. The install didn't come with SQL Server Management Studio.

  I want to now install this but I don't want SQL Server service to stop even momentarily. Can someone confirm if I can go ahead with the install without stopping the database.

  Thanks,

  Peter

• Koen Verbeeck

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  December 11, 2012 at 2:25 am

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  Installing SSMS doesn't stop the database.

  If your server is so important, you shouldn't install client tools on it, but on a seperate client computer.

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