More info: a "stand-alone" installer for Management Studio Express 2008

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Published on Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:56:00 GMT Indexed on 2010/03/31 18:23 UTC
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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 remains a pipe dream. Bill Ramos stated in his 2009-02-20 announcement : "We teased out the Tools portion of SQL Server 2008 Express with Tools into it’s own download."...(read more)

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