Hi Cecil,

This happened to me once before. In my case, somehow the installer got confused between an existing instance of SQL Server Express and SQL Server 2005 Developer. the Client Tools and Management Studio would not show up. (The installer didn't even install them.) I tried a number of things to get the management tools on my PC, but to no avail. The only way I could get it to work was to remove all versions of SQL Server and then start installing again with SQL Server 2005 Developer first. :(

Guy




>I installed Visual Studio 2008, then the 2010 Beta 2, both of which installed some components of SQL Server. However, I then installed SQL Sever 2005 Developer (I know. I should have installed it first.) and now there is no Menu Item on the Start / Programs menu showing the SQL Server 2005 Management Studio.
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>I believe the below is the correct location of the executable file, but how do I add this to the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 menu under Start / Programs?
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>"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\SqlWb.exe"
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