Last February, I blogged about something I was initially very happy about: a stand-alone installer for Management Studio Express (SSMSE) 2008.  Now users could allegedly download a much smaller installer, and only install the client tools without having to install an instance of SQL Server Express.  While the latter is true, the former ...

Sorry I have been quiet recently; been working very hard for the past two weeks on a migration of an old, tried SQL Server 2005 database to a brand new 2008 cluster with faster SAN undercarriage, double the memory and twice as many CPUs.  I'll blog more about that later, because other than a few user errors, the whole process was actually ...

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 ...