Use this tag for questions specific to scaled down, free edition of SQL Server 2005.
Questions tagged [sql-server-2005-express]
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What do you use to Profile SQL Server 2005 Express?
I've got a problem on an SQL Server 2005 Express instance, and I need to see exactly what is being run, since what I believe is being run works fine when I run it from Management Studio.
It appears that Profiler is not available for SQL Server 2005…

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InvalidOperationException when executing SqlCommand with transaction
I have this code, running parallel in two separate threads. It works fine for a few times, but at some random point it throws InvalidOperationException:
The transaction is either not associated with the current connection or has been completed.
At…

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Same name tables under different schemas with SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express
I know how to create a new schema and write a DDL script to create tables with the same name that reside in different schemas in the same database. I want to know how to do that using SQL Server 2005 Management Studio Express.
To repeat, I want to…

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Convert SQL Server Express 2005 .mdf to 2008 .mdf?
Hi I have a Visual Studio solution and an ASP.NET MVC project that uses a SQL Server Express 2005 database file in the App_Data. I want to know how I can upgrade this file so it works for SQL Server Express 2008 ?
Thanks

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SQL Dependency with SQL Server express 2005
Is it possible to use SQL Dependency with SQL Server Express 2005 which comes with VS 2008?

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This version of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express can only be used to connect to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 servers
I have installed SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005 in windows 7.
SERVER TYPE: Database Engine
SERVER NAME: Avani-PC\SQLEXPRESS
AUTHENTICATION: Windows Authentication
USER NAME: Avani-PC
when I click on connect I found the following…

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Why do I get a permission error when connecting to SQL Server from Visual Studio?
I have SQL Server 2005 SP4 Express, when I try to establish connection from VS2010 to my database, I get a error:
You don't have permission to open this file
Contact the file owner or an administrator to obtain permission.
I am using windows…

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Absolutely simple SQL Server query doesn't return anything
What I have here is very strange to me...
Select BARCODE, DATA
from HISTORIA
WHERE BARCODE='25405187' AND DATA = '2013-03-08 00:00:00.000'
Select BARCODE, DATA
from HISTORIA
WHERE BARCODE='25405187'
Simple right?
Now please look at returned…

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SQL Where Exists Doesn't Filter?
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Violation of UNIQUE
KEY constraint 'AK_SeqNo'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object
'dbo.SeqNo'.
I get the above SQL Server 2005 Express error randomly. Maybe once every 3 weeks from the stored…

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Potential causes and solutions for the transaction log in database being full
In the data access layer of my teams ASP.NET application, I run stored procedures against our database through the use of the .NET SQLClient. After adding new code to allow an insert operation on the database, I tested the code, and received the…

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Error accessing stored procedure
We have a .NET3.5 Windows Forms application that calls an ASP.NET SOAP web service on the same server. This web service then saves the data into a SQL Server Express 2005 database, again on the same server.
The application has been deployed…

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BIDS installation with SSIS , SSRS and SSAS on SQL Express 2005
I want SQL Server 2005 Express in my machine so that I can have a local database (not allowed to install standard or enterprise))and at the same time should be able to create projects for SSRS, SSIS and SSAS in BIDS.
I saw this post :
Installation…

Sumita Narayanan
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Grouping by case field
so I'm pretty new to SQL and almost wholly self-taught so far. I'm currently trying to run some analysis on the ranks of staff, where I'm trying to "reclassify" about 15+ ranks to 4 rank categories. Then I want to group by those categories, but am…

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Access a SQL Server 2005 Express Edition from a network computer
How do you access a SQL Server 2005 Express Edition from a application in a network computer?
The access I need is both from application (Linq-to-SQL and ODBC) and from Management Studio

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SQL Server Replication, How to Synch. a Subscriber gone offline
We are using SQL Sever 2005 replication for out application. Every thing is working fine without any problems. However, recently we ran into a situation to which I have no solution.
We use merge replication with the publisher(SQL Sever 2005) in one…

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