How do I uninstall management tools

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How do I uninstall management tools

John Schierberg

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April 11, 2003 at 7:18 am

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I need to uninstall the management tools from a desktop. I can't seem to find an uninstall utility to do it. Can someone point me in a direction?

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Allen Cui-55137 SSC Guru Points: 51650 More actions · Answer 1

Have you tried from control panel --> Add/Remove programs ?

John Schierberg SSC-Addicted Points: 461 More actions · Answer 2

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Have you tried from control panel --> Add/Remove programs ?

John Schierberg SSC-Addicted Points: 461 More actions · Answer 3

Yes. But I don't want to uninstall the entire sqlserver database, just the management tools.

Allen Cui-55137 SSC Guru Points: 51650 More actions · Answer 4

Which version of SQL Server? MSDE? Just curiously, why do you want to do that? Can you just simply delete the executable programs which you don't need?

John Schierberg SSC-Addicted Points: 461 More actions · Answer 5

version is v7. User had the database installed already. Then decided he needed the tools. But his desktop doesn't have enough memory. Now he wants to uninstall them.

mybid2003 SSCertifiable Points: 6620 More actions · Answer 6

You could certainly find that from Installation CD. You can run SETUP.EXE again and select add/remove.

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Allen Cui-55137 SSC Guru Points: 51650 More actions · Answer 7

Remove the tools does not help the relief of memory constraint. Just don't run them.

If you still want SQL Server to run in this machine, Try to reduce configuration of memory allocation for SQL Server to see whether it helps. Verify other services that do not necessary to run and setup them manually start or stop them. Use task mamager to see which processes are comsuming the memory.

John Schierberg SSC-Addicted Points: 461 More actions · Answer 8

Desktop is win98. Don't have taskmanager or services utilities.

There must be something running because when the desktop is re-booted, get message "out of environment space" and windows will not startup. User says nothing else has been changed on his desktop.

Also there is no "add/remove" option on the install CD. And the install wizard says "unchecking installed components will not remove them."

(I didn't think this was going to be such a major problem.)

John Schierberg SSC-Addicted Points: 461 More actions · Answer 9

Well, I resolved my user's problem. Seems the c: drive was full and the real problem was that the swap space could not extend. After creating some room by deleting a few things, I am able to re-boot without error.

(Would still like to find out how to uninstall the tools, though. Seems there should be a way. After all, you can install the database without the tools.)

Thanks for the help.