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SQL 2005 MSDN Subscription

  • January 4, 2008 at 4:42 am

    #181907

    Hello,

    I have discovered that we have an MSDN subscription and what I want to do is load up SQL 2005 to test a DB and application that is currently running on SQL 2000. I am quite unfamiliar as to what the MSDN thing is so I was wondering, if I load SQL 2005 up from the MSDN disk and it all works great, can I just by the SQL 2005 license and keep using what I have loaded, or would I have to reinstall for some reason, or go through some other process to keep what I have?

    Regards,

    D.

  • January 4, 2008 at 7:43 am

    #764837

    Here's Microsoft's take -

    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/aa948867.aspx

    I suppose it depends on the type of subscription, i.e. volume license vs. retail. I've never had problems using MSDN versions of SQL 2005 Standard/Enterprise under a volume license agreement. We shore up the number of production instances, etc. w/ our MS rep at the end of the year.

    Tommy

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