With my most recent install of VS2005, I naturally installed SQL Express (again). The first time took a bit of head scratching and playing around to get a database created (without resorting to command line osql shananigans). This time I decided to download SQL 2005 Developer Edition - just to install the client tools.
After everything was installed I found that the SQL Management Studio (is that what they call it now? I thought it was going to be the SQL Workbench) connects to SQL Express out of the box... no configuration needed. Sweet!
posted @ Sunday, November 06, 2005 8:13 PM