You have to be an owner of Visual Studio 6 to qualify for it.

>Steve,
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>You can order the MSDE CD from MS, even though you already have it ... but the reason for doing this is that the CD includes SQL Server Developer Edition, which gives you the tools you need (Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer, etc.).
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/msde/order.asp
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>It's free, but you have to pay shipping and handling ... worth it, IMHO.
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>Now, you'll have to uninstall your MSDE in order to install the SQL Server Developer Edition.
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>The only caveat to all this ... I'm not sure if you'd be getting SQL Server 7 or SQL Server 2000 with this. You definitely want 2000. Check out the website link ...
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>~~Bonnie
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>>Someone asked this question because I found it by searching but I don't recall seeing an adequate answer. I see MSDE as a good desktop tool to get SQL code to be proficiently written for potential migration, but, I don't see something like Enterprise Mgr or other tools that seem to come with SQL-Server. MSDN seems to indicate that to create a MSDE, create it via Access or SQL-Server and upsize or downsize into MSDE. Seems ridiculous to have to create and maintain a database elsewhere and then have to migrate it into MSDE.
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>>I just received my VFP 7 and have loaded MSDE on the machine too. Now what?
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>>Thanks,
>>Steve