Yes, as long as the instance names are unique it is supported and will work.

Yes, you can run the Upgrade Advisor tool as was mentioned by downloading it from here to run against your SQL2000 instance:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=63FCE120-5E87-4AF1-B080-CA461AEAFAA2&displaylang=en

There is a link on that page showing...

During the installation, you will get to a dialog that is called "Components to install".  On that dialog is 5 checkboxes, with the last one being "workstation components ....".  Click...

Sure can, as long as you install SQL2005 as a separate instance.  If you don't know what you chose for SQL2000, it's probably default so when you run the setup.exe...

If you go to this link below, there is connection info on how to setup a NNTP newsreader like Outlook Express so you can post to the newsgroups.  Username and...

If you expand the instance you are managing, you should see a node called "Databases > System".  When I do this I see the system db's (master, model, msdb).  Can...

Not that we support this, but someone posted this on the newsgroups as their workaround:

I was able to get around the problem by uninstalling

Virtual PC, setting the date...

It will complain as a warning, but won't block you.  The basic check for the Full edition is 1GHZ processor and 512MB memory, for there not to be a warning. ...

Download the SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 documentation from here:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/d/5/ad5467b9-a388-46e3-a8ef-f45dc51425a7/SqlAbridgedBOL.msi

Then after you've installed it, open it up and go to the "Failover Clustering" section.  That has a bunch of...

I'll send this to our cluster guy and one of us will respond to you

Do you have a copy of SQL 2005 and are curious before you install it?  If so, that info is available from the autorun menu when you insert the CD,...

The full version is still only available to MSDN subscribers, but you can install the Express version to test out.  All the management tools are not there, but one of...

That's correct, for now you need to have a MSDN subscription to get a hold of the full version.  Beta3 when released will be available for everyone.

Preview 1 of Express...

I'll try to answer any questions that I can.  What type of data are you looking for in terms of migration?  One thing I can tell you about your platform...