Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Installing the samples after an install

Hi,

I stupidly did not install the samples for 2005 when I installed the dev edition on my machines. Now I would like to. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a way to do it. The installation process always says I have the documentation installed (I have books online installed). It appears that there is no way to install the samples if you have installed the documentation and workstation items.

Is there somewhere I can download the samples?

Thanks for any help.
]Monty[Do the following:

1) Go to Add/Remove Programs
2) Click on the entry for SQL Server 2005 and click the Change button
3) Select "Workstation Components" and click Next (this will launch the feature in maintenance mode which allows you to add or remove components)
4) Follow the dialogs accepting the defaults.
5) On the "Change or Remove..." dialog select the "Change Installed Components" option.
6) On the "Feature Selection" dialog expand the "Documentation, Samples, and Sample Databases" node.
7) Select the samples you want installed (e.g. Sample Databases and/or Code Samples). Follow the dialogs to the end
- If your installing the Sample Databases you'll be prompted for an instance to connect them to.
- If your installing the Code Samples, this process drops the Code Sample MSI to your machine. You'll need to go to "Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft SQL Server 2005 -> Documentation and Samples -> Samples" and run "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Samples (English)" to install the actual code samples.

Dan|||Thanks a ton, man.

]Monty[|||

The sample databases and samples can also be downloaded from this site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/samples/

Regards,

sql

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