As a developer I find that I’m frequently backing up and restoring SQL Server databases between servers for development and testing purposes. However, each time I do the link between the login (a server concept) and the user (a per database concept) gets broken. There is a stored procedure in SQL Server to wire it […]
Tag Archives: SQL Server 2005
Developing with SQL Server 2008, deploying on SQL Server 2005
I received the following by email today: Hi Colin! I found your blog after googling for a bit about SQL Server. I had a question for you… As someone fairly new to .NET development, would it be easier to stick with SQL Server 2005 for now, or just install SQL Server 2008 express? I ask […]
SQL Server / Visual Studio Install Order
Yesterday I paved my laptop in order to upgrade to Windows Vista. I’ve now started to reinstall everything from scratch again. However, one thing that didn’t work out was the installation of SQL Server 2005. No matter what I tried I could not seem to get it to install the SQL Server Management Studio – […]
Installing SQL Server 2005 on Vista
Perhaps this is not so much an issue with installing SQL Server 2005 on Vista, but of the way I install SQL Server 2005 on Vista, or even more accurately install it on my laptop on Vista. A SQL Server will expect to run constantly on the machine that it is installed on. However, not […]
