Good to know. The reason why I had asked was because a developer had told me that SQL7 and SQL 2000 weren't compatible on the same box. Do you have a link to some info so that I can prove this to him?

>Not 100% sure if there are any issues, but you can have a SQL 7 and SQL 2000 on the same box so I would presume the same is possible with 2000 and 2005.
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>>Can SQL 2005 and SQL 2000 be installed and run on the same server at the same time?