>Marcia I gave that a try - I ad to install the full version of visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 - I was getting so bogged down in installing new software that i gave up in the end - is there a simple way of trialling strataframe?
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>I have the live version of StrataFrame running with SQL Server 2005. This is the issue with frameworks - they all make assumptions.

Any idea where I can get SQL Server 2005 from - if I install 2008 then I need visual Studio 2008 and so it goes on

Thanks for your help