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Installing and Using Microsoft <strong>SQL</strong> Server 2000<br />

If you have access to a full, licensed copy of Microsoft <strong>SQL</strong> Server, that’s great news. If you don’t have<br />

one, a 120-day evaluation version can be downloaded from: www.microsoft.com/downloads/<br />

details.aspx?FamilyID=d20ba6e1-f44c-4781-a6bb-f60e02dc1335&DisplayLang=en<br />

If the hefty price tag of the full MS <strong>SQL</strong> Server is off-putting, you may be pleased to know that <strong>SQL</strong><br />

Server 2005 Express Edition is due out in 2005, and it’s free! It has many of the features of the full <strong>SQL</strong><br />

Server and is ideal for learning <strong>SQL</strong> with this book. The main difference between the Express Edition<br />

and the full <strong>SQL</strong> Server is scalability; <strong>SQL</strong> Server 2005 Express Edition is not designed for very heavy<br />

workloads, like sites such as Amazon.com might get. As the time of this writing, <strong>SQL</strong> Server 2005<br />

Express Edition is still in beta 2, which means it’s not 100% stable, so it’s not a good idea to install it<br />

on any essential machine. <strong>SQL</strong> Server 2005 Express Edition can be downloaded from the Microsoft.com<br />

Web site: www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=62b348bb-<br />

0458-4203-bb03-8be49e16e6cd&DisplayLang=en.<br />

You can learn more about <strong>SQL</strong> Server 2005 Express Edition at the following Web site:<br />

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/<br />

dnsse/html/sseoverview.asp.<br />

If you’re installing the downloaded evaluation version, you have downloaded a single file,<br />

<strong>SQL</strong>Eval.exe, that needs to be run so that it decompresses itself. Select Start ➪ Run, and then browse<br />

to the file and run it. Extract the file’s contents to a convenient location on your hard drive. Once the files<br />

are unpacked, the installation is pretty much the same whether you downloaded the evaluation or the<br />

full version.<br />

To start the <strong>SQL</strong> Server installation, select Start ➪ Run and browse to the setup.bat file. You should<br />

be presented with the screen shown in Figure B-60. Click Next to continue installation:<br />

Figure B-60<br />

Setting Up and Using the Five Database Systems<br />

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