SQL Express Family CTP Now Available

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mikewa
Microsoft SQL Server Product Team

84 Posts

Posted - 2006-03-16 : 18:33:36

I’m happy to announce the release to public CTP of the following SQL Express Family products:

SQL Server 2005 Express Editions SP1
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit
SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express (included as part of Express Advanced & Express Toolkit)

You can download and install these CTPs from the CTP download page [url]http://www.microsoft.com/sql/ctp_sp1.mspx[/url]. Here is a brief description of each product:

SQL Server Express Edition with SP1
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition (SQL Server Express) is a powerful and reliable data management product that delivers rich features, data protection, and performance for embedded application clients, light Web applications, and local data stores. Designed for easy deployment and rapid prototyping, SQL Server Express is available at no cost, and you are free to redistribute it with applications. If you need more advanced database features, then SQL Server Express can be seamlessly upgraded to more sophisticated versions of SQL Server.

SQL Server Express Edition with Advanced Services
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services is a new, free version of SQL Server Express that includes additional features for reporting and advanced text based searches. In addition to the features offered in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, SQL Server Express with Advanced Services offers additional components that include SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE), support for full-text catalogs, and support for viewing reports via report server. SQL Server Express Edition with Advanced Services also includes SP1.

SQL Server Express Edition Toolkit
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition Toolkit (SQL Server Express Toolkit) provides tools and resources to manage SQL Server Express and SQL Server Express Edition with Advanced Services. It also allows creating reports by using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS).

SQL Server Management Studio Express
SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE) provides a graphical management tool for managing SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services instances. SSMSE can also manage relational engine instances created by any edition of SQL Server 2005. SSMSE cannot manage Analysis Services, Integration Services, SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition, Notification Services, Reporting Services, or SQL Server Agent.

Feel free to discuss these releases in the MSDN SQL Express Forum [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=62430[/url]. (You can discuss it here too, but the MSDN Forum is the "official" forum for the CTP.)
Report any issues you find in the MSDN Product Feedback Center [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=51684[/url].

Regards,
Mike Wachal
SQL Express

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maborcha
Starting Member

2 Posts

Posted - 2006-03-24 : 14:51:21

Mike,
Thanks for posting the updated information. I would like to try Reporting Services, but after doing some research I found that you must have IIS installed to even install Reporting Services. I have XP Home and from everything I read you cannot install IIS on XP Home. I don't want to upgrade to XP Professional, are there any other options for creating reports and running Reporting Services on just my local machine?

Thnaks

mikewa
Microsoft SQL Server Product Team

84 Posts

Posted - 2006-03-28 : 16:38:53

There is no way to run Reporting Services without IIS, sorry.

As far as creating reports, you can create reports with certain versions of Visual Studio:

VS Standard and above - Includes Report Builder and Report Viewer control
VWD Express - You can download an add-on that contains the Report Builder and Report Viewer control
VB.NET and C# Express - You can download the Report Viewer control but not the Report Builder

Regards,
Mike Wachal
SQL Express

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