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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 - 17847

Marking your questions as Answered
Samuel Lester - MSFT Tuesday, February 13, 2007 5:21 AM - 158

Corrupt file error installing MSDN SQL 2005 Dev Edition CD under Win7
dthouston Thursday, November 19, 2009 5:08 PM - 2102

SQL SERVER 2005 EXPRESS EDITION SERVICE PACK 3+WINDOWS XP SP2
George Mpasiouras Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:00 PM - 022

Server 2008 installation fail, Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with windows authentication.
Vincent L 2 hours 45 minutes ago - 6152

Install SQL 2008 onto Windows Server cluster
Da Laoshu Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:12 AM - 2873

SQL Server 2005 Express Service Pack 3 Error during Windows Update
RemyMaza Friday, March 20, 2009 10:19 AM - 137

sql writer cannt access
chandtara 14 hours 44 minutes ago - 124569

Cannot install RC0. Must remove SQL2005 Express tools. Huh?
Barrie Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:39 PM - 041

Solution to : 960127 Error message when you install the 64-bit version of SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence Development Studio: "Upgrade Failed due to the following Error. The error code is: -2147467259.Message:Unspecified error"
Keep on Truckin 17 hours 9 minutes ago - 049

upgrade from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 sa password
wael.kader 20 hours 33 minutes ago - 3238

Quiet Simple upgrade of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 hangs
tungngie Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:31 AM - 179

How to install SQL server 2005 standard edition on Windows 7 professional
snielsson Saturday, November 21, 2009 4:51 PM - 2102

Unable to install SQl 2008
Buckeyetech Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:44 AM - 2120

Using UPN (user principal name) as Account Name in SQL Server Setup
Erik Caha Thursday, November 19, 2009 4:57 PM - 3145

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3
RogillioM Wednesday, November 18, 2009 3:39 PM - 290

Installation media
win_hawaii Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:42 PM - 279

Forum for 2008 R2?
trc_pdx Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:29 PM - 9180

SQL Server 2008 Installation on Windows 7
Uta Lauks Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:29 AM - 3213

SQL SERVER 2005 Compatibility Issue with Windows 7 Pro x64
makoychan Friday, November 06, 2009 3:05 AM


