You could test agaisnt an express instance until your license comes in...just change your connection string;
there's pretty much only 3 or 4 things in the string anyway; server, database, trusted connection or not, and if not, username and password.
you can change those things whenever you need to change to teh Standard version once it gets installed.
Lowell
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