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Peter Saddow - Microsoft Tuesday, September 08, 2009 4:41 PMWe have just made available 2 surveys to capture feedback around SQL Server Express.Please take a few minutes to complete the surveys and add to your blog to expand our reach.Microsoft is committed to making the SQL Server Express installation experience the best in industry. For us to achieve this goal, we need your candid feedback on your experience with installing SQL Server Express. If you have used several different versions of SQL Server Express, focus on the latest version that you have used. When SQL Server 2008 Customer Technical Preview 3 is released, feel free to complete this survey again since several installation improvements have been made. This information will be used to improve our future releases including SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 11. This survey will be available until the end of November.Please visit the following blogs that contain instructions:General survey around installing SQL Server ExpressSurvey that focuses on embedding SQL Server Express
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Maintenance Plan Changes in SQL Server 2005 SP2
Ed LehmanMSFTSaturday, February 24, 2007 9:00 AM - 17872

Marking your questions as Answered
Samuel Lester - MSFT Tuesday, February 13, 2007 5:21 AM - 131

To Pagefile or not X64 Win2K3 & SQL2005 X64
danny1s 10 hours 19 minutes ago - 020

MS SQL 2008 performance in a Multi-Core system
C-White 2 hours 54 minutes ago - 127

Unable to Install SQL 2008 on Windows Professional 7
Veal 5 hours 32 minutes ago - 137

Deadlocks on SQL Server
VikasKolluri 6 hours 33 minutes ago - 026

SQL server installation error: "Could not find a package to install on the installation media"
mp703 6 hours 32 minutes ago - 5138

ADDNODE Skips Stuff?
Randy in Marin Friday, November 20, 2009 2:28 AM - 238

Can't install SQL Server 2005 Express on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
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Could not continue scan with NOLOCK due to data movement during installation
GSS1 15 hours 13 minutes ago - 7376

Upgrade 2005 to 2008 - How to handle MSDB to retain scheduled jobs and maintenance plans?
usp Sunday, October 25, 2009 11:40 PM - 029

Edition Upgrade not Supported - SQL Server 2008 Enterprise
HereMyGo 9 hours 40 minutes ago - 2511

SQL Server Management Studio 2008 Installation Fails Due to Exceptoin "Unknown property"
crezdev Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:48 PM - 3532115

Can't install SQL 2005 Delveloper edition and show error with MSXML
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2008 R2 November CTP Enterprise Upgrade Fails
Cgallelli Monday, November 23, 2009 9:04 PM - 73111

Error Adding Second Node - SQL 2008 RTM
Forch Friday, August 08, 2008 11:49 AM - 149

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP3 upgrade in-place to SQL Server 2005 Standard
GeorgeBittencourt 15 hours 22 minutes ago - 3813758

Setup of SQL Server 2008: Restart required but I have restarted
Diddlydix Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:59 AM - 385

SQL Server version upgrade problem
JPassos Monday, November 23, 2009 7:04 PM - 252

Management Studio Express download doesn't include SP1?
DodgerLD Monday, November 23, 2009 8:21 AM


