You probably have the Express version of SQL if you installed it with VS2005.

You better uninstall it before installing another version.

>I was able however to setup a database, add a table, define it and view the data from >VS 2005 interface. So, I can test my code with SQL Server and this seems to work ok.

Sure but you don't have other features like the Profiler, the Execution plan, backups, ...

>>If you installed only SQL Express, you don't have any tools to do what you want. See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=82AFBD59-57A4-455E-A2D6-1D4C98D40F6E&displaylang=en for a CTP version of a tool.
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>>If you installed another version, you should find "SQL Server Manageent Studio" in your menus.
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>Ok, so the version installed with VS 2005 is not the full version. Does this mean I have to uninstall that and install SQL Server directly from my MSDN CD if I want to have the full install?
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>I was able however to setup a database, add a table, define it and view the data from VS 2005 interface. So, I can test my code with SQL Server and this seems to work ok.