Cake Server Set


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Cake Server Set

Cake Server Set

This walkthrough will explain how to find, download and install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express and the AdventureWorks sample database. These free Microsoft products are very popular as they provide a complete SQL Server development environment for Windows XP and Windows Vista. At the heart of today's data-driven, interactive "Web 2.0" applications is a database that not only houses data, but seamlessly interacts with an application's requests to manipulate and view that data. To do that, SQL database programming is required. Many would-be programmers use SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express as a platform for developing their SQL skills.

Download the Software

To get started, download all the software installers needed. Just save them for now, as the actual installations will happen later. There are 2 prerequisite software packages needed in order to install SQL. Links are included here for convenience. Some are direct links to the software packages, others are links to the web page on which the software can be downloaded. Download and save .NET Framework 2.0, MSXML 6.0, SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, SQL Server Management Studio Express and the AdventureWorks sample database.