SQL 2005 MSDN Subscription

• Duran

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  January 4, 2008 at 4:42 am

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  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?

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  D.

• Tommy Bollhofer

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  January 4, 2008 at 7:43 am

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  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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