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  • izzy
    #1

    MSDE 2000 Versions

    I was wondering if any of you guys can kindly help me in finding all
    the different versions of MSDE 2000 that came out since it's first
    release. I expected to find something similar like Sun's archive
    (http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html) for MSDE 2000 too
    but failed to find after a few hours of browsing at the Microsoft
    Download Center (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/s...isplaylang=en).
    They seem more into promoting their new MSDE 2000 Release A for the
    time being but nothing much about the previous versions of MSDE to
    serve my product testing purposes.
    All I need is a complete list of different versions of MSDE 2000 with
    downloadable links.

    Thanks in advance.

    IzzY
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    • Jacco Schalkwijk
      #2
      Re: MSDE 2000 Versions

      Hi Izzy,

      MSDE Release A is the first version of MSDE that is actually available for
      free download. All previous versions of MSDE came as part of the license for
      another Microsoft product, like SQL Server, Office Professional and Web
      Matrix.

      Also it is Microsoft's policy to have nothing but the most recent version of
      a Service Pack available for download, because Service Packs include
      important fixes, like for example the fix for the Slammer worm.

      As MSDE is intended for use in self contained applications, you should have
      an MSDE instance just for use with your own application (you can have 16
      instances of MSDE on one machine). Because your application is the only one
      that uses that MSDE instance, you can upgrade it at will and the best way of
      doing things is to include the latest Service Pack in your installation and
      upgrade package. In this way you only have to test your software against the
      latest version of MSDE and you don't put your customers at risk of being
      infected by Slammer.


      --
      Jacco Schalkwijk
      SQL Server MVP


      "izzy" <izzy@eudoramai l.com> wrote in message
      news:330ce184.0 312172245.6f84b 998@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
      > I was wondering if any of you guys can kindly help me in finding all
      > the different versions of MSDE 2000 that came out since it's first
      > release. I expected to find something similar like Sun's archive
      > (http://java.sun.com/products/archive/index.html) for MSDE 2000 too
      > but failed to find after a few hours of browsing at the Microsoft
      > Download Center[/color]
      (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/s...isplaylang=en).[color=blue]
      > They seem more into promoting their new MSDE 2000 Release A for the
      > time being but nothing much about the previous versions of MSDE to
      > serve my product testing purposes.
      > All I need is a complete list of different versions of MSDE 2000 with
      > downloadable links.
      >
      > Thanks in advance.
      >
      > IzzY[/color]


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