Installing SQL 2005 Express on a clean install
Ok, so you want sql 2005 express intalled.... What I ran into.
I was installing SQL Express on a Win2003 Server. So I downloaded the installer and copied it to the server. The server has to be updated to the fullest to allow the SQL Server to be installed, but I cannot blame Bill for that. When i finally fixed all the prerequisites, the installer ran beautifully and installed everything like it should. The first thing I did was enable the TCP/IP protocol because that sounded like a good idea. Excited as I was, I tried to connect to the server from an WinXP machine with VS2005. Damn.. no parla SQL...
Then I installed the Management tool ("SQL Server Express Manager"): http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/default.aspx That helped a lot... No realy it helped!. You can see wether the server is running and able to receive connections. Also the name of the server, etc. Out of time for now, but i will get back to on this topic.
To be continued....