In October, I complained (surprise, surprise) on behalf of Express users that you had to download an entire Express package (with Tools or with Advanced Services) in order to install the basic Management Studio Express, even if you already had the engine installed and had no need for another instance.  (For SQL Server 2005, a standalone ...

Sorry I missed this yesterday with all the excitement over the Visual Studio SP1 release (which allowed some people to finally install the SQL Server 2008 release from last week).  Yesterday also marked the release of SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, which you can download here: http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/default.aspx You can ...