Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Re: Problem Reinstalling SQL Server Express 2008 under Windows 7 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:17:33 +0200 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <95l1p7d5jc4ebmeqt47r1ekei2tc888vgb@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="nBFDv6s1VJQDuF1w6hpX2A"; logging-data="7924"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18H9/LhA0/c5c5iWk2H6rcC" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Rva9xFGQV+sv8nFrTvWDFSEvSOQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:998 Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:46:03 +0200, Erland Sommarskog > wrote: >>A plain installation of SQL 2008 Express does not include SSMS. You >>need SQL 2008 Express with Advanced Services, as I recall. > > Oh, is that what the difference is? (Well, I assume that is but > one of them.) SQL Express only is the engine and the command-line tools. Advanced Services gives you quite a few more things. SSMS Express may also be a separate download. I don't know these details on the top of my head. > I thought I had installed a plain installation in the past and > gotten SSMS. Apparently you didn't. > Maybe, an SP did SSMS installation for me. If you installed the service pack for a download that includes SSMS, yes. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se Links for SQL Server Books Online: SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx