installing the sample databases and documentation

There are two instances: SQL2005 and SQL2005Express on two different units. While there is Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition also installed on the units have not attempted these component installs through either yet. Have spent the better part of two days, following all the directions having searched help locally, online, technet,and applied their advice respectively. While I've taken out the old instances, downloaded updated ones in both my SQL Server instances they do not show as installed under Programs->SQL Server (whichever instance)->Tutorials ...However they do show installed in Control Panel and they can be found via Explorer (AdWorks DBCI+AdWorks BICI and Express instance on the other unit. Have also download SP2 and installed it, but this has proved of no help. @. My wits' end, any help will be appreciated.

Documentation and sample databases are an option during installation.

Books Online appears as an installed program in Add/Remove Programs but the sample databases do not.

If AdventureWorks was installed with 2005 but did not appear in Object Explorer you can attach it. Attach is on the right-click menu of Databases in Object Explorer.

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You can also find the SQL Server 2005 documentation available online at:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx

It has many great tutorials to get started.

Thanks,
Sam Lester (MSFT)

|||Thank you for your suggestion Lester, however before my initial post had already consulted books online, and downloaded the latest version to stay in sync with the software. Part of my frustration comes from following their directions but failing to achieve similar outcomes. Adventure Works databases are definitely resident on my computer, though not in the same directories in the Explorer file hierarchy indicated by the manuals/instructions. The directions have been exhaustively followed a number of times, replete with uninstalls then reinstalls - all to no avail. This is the case in both units, each with a different operating system and different version of SQL. Am still stymied.