Which edition os Team Edition are you using? What is the exact behavior you're seeing (i.e. you cannot connect to a Developer Edition instance from within a database project)?

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "incompatible"?

Thanks,

Dan

This is a supported configuration. Take a look at: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=121692&SiteID=1

Cheers,

Dan

Steve,

I mostly agree with your comments, however, I have to raise objection to the following:

"...but I could see people in the finance department pushing hard to...

There is no facility in Management Studio for creating custom folders in Object Explorer for grouping objects. Though it's an interesting feature. Where would you expect the groups to be...

You should install SQL2000 prior to SQL2005. We did some work in SQL2005 to ensure that when one of the other is uninstalled none of the DLL registration is broken...

In Management Studio select Help .> About: If you have SP1 or greater the version for Management Studio will be 9.00.2047.00 or greater.

Cheers,

Dan

SQL Server 2000 SP4 does not use MSI so I doubt very much these are associated with SQL Server 2000. They appear to be temporary folders and safe for deletion....

Check out Books Online: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143688.aspx

Can you provide more details on what you did and are trying to do?

My wife recently had her personal laptop stolen. Someone broke into our house and took her laptop and her Bose SoundDock for her iPod. To Nicholas' and Steve's point, the...

SQL Server 2000 had a little utility that allowed you to keep track of your licenses. The SQL Server engine, however, did not use this information; it was FYI only....

The file that stores the list of servers in the connection dialog drop down is stored here:

"C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Shell\mru.dat"

This file is considered user data...

Take a look at the following white paper for embedding SQL Express into your application's setup program: http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/express/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsse/html/emsqlexcustapp.asp

Put in the DVD for the licensed version and run setup. Select the features you want to install. Then on the instance name dialog select the evaluation edition instance. You'll...