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&gt;Can I load the backup database into SQL Express 2008?<br />
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Even if you could, does that make sense? &nbsp;If your product migrates to production on 2005, I would not think it wise to do development on 2008.<br />
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&gt;Can I install SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and SQL Server 2008 Express on the same machine?<br />
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That seems like the better approach.<br />
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>Can I load the backup database into SQL Express 2008?

Even if you could, does that make sense?  If your product migrates to production on 2005, I would not think it wise to do development on 2008.

>Can I install SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and SQL Server 2008 Express on the same machine?

That seems like the better approach.




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Can I install SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and SQL Server 2008 Express on the same machine?<br />
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I have a 2.8GB backup file from a production SQL Server 2005 Database that I am trying to do some work on remotely. &nbsp;RDP is really a bit slow unfortunately. &nbsp;My development machine has 2008 Express installed. &nbsp;I was thinking that I would install the SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and load the database against that but I am not sure if the two will coexist.<br />
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Can I load the backup database into SQL Express 2008? &nbsp;The size of the database is 4.4GB according to SSMS Properties (So I am sort of predicting that it will not fit into SQL Express.<br />
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Thanks.<br />
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-Rowan
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Can I install SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and SQL Server 2008 Express on the same machine?

I have a 2.8GB backup file from a production SQL Server 2005 Database that I am trying to do some work on remotely.  RDP is really a bit slow unfortunately.  My development machine has 2008 Express installed.  I was thinking that I would install the SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition and load the database against that but I am not sure if the two will coexist.

Can I load the backup database into SQL Express 2008?  The size of the database is 4.4GB according to SSMS Properties (So I am sort of predicting that it will not fit into SQL Express.

Thanks.

-Rowan

SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 Express on Same Machine

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Microsoft SQL Server

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.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005

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