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I believe the basic requirement for installation of SQL Server 2005 is that your system should have .Net Framework installed and the version should be either 2.0 or above.<br />
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Hence you should not face any issues if you have .Net Framework 3.5
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I believe the basic requirement for installation of SQL Server 2005 is that your system should have .Net Framework installed and the version should be either 2.0 or above.

Hence you should not face any issues if you have .Net Framework 3.5

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Hi all,<br />
can you install .NET Framework 3.5 on a SQL 2005 machine? &nbsp;I had a feeling this build of .NET was for 2008.<br />
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Hi all,
can you install .NET Framework 3.5 on a SQL 2005 machine?  I had a feeling this build of .NET was for 2008.
 


.NET Framework 3.5 with SQL 2005

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.