Can't Find AdventureWorksLT2008R2

Question

Hi...apologies if this question has already been answered a zillion times, but I can't find the answer.  I'm following the walkthroughs in the MSDN Library for WCF RIA services in Silverlight.  Having the Adventure Works OLTP and LT Databases is a prerequisite and here are the instructions for installing the databases: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg512107(v=vs.91)

The page referrs me to the installer, which I see is no longer available, according to this page: http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/releases/view/55926

I have now downloaded and attached 'AdventureWorks2008R2_Data.mdf' and 'AdventureWorksDW2008R2_Data.mdf'.  That helped me get through the first walkthrough, but now I'm stuck on the next one, because I don't have the tables the tutorial is referring to.

Those two files are the only ones I've been able to find.  Any info on how I can get the actual databses I need?

Answer 1

I failed to mention in my question that I had tried the scripted version of the database, and that it failed because of a missing path.

I was rushing at the time and didn't read the script and error message closely enough. The problem was that, since I already had an existing instance named "SQLEXPRESS" under 10.0, I had decided to create this new one, under 10.5, as a named instance. Since the script is hard-coded with the default path, I just had to update the path with my named instance and I was good to go after that.

sheesh!