The Yukon setup team is looking for feedback related to your setup and installation experience with SQL Server 2005. We've setup a survey that asks for a few demographics as well as your experience and any issues with the setup of the Betas or CTPs. We...

There is a possiblility that after you've downloaded the SQL 2005 installation package to your local machine, during extraction of the files to your local drive you will get an error that looks like the following screenshot below. If you get this, it...

Did you just download and tried installing the Feb CTP build? Did setup complain that it found existing incompatible components? Along with your dowload package is a tool on the CD that will scan your machine and allow you to remove previous versions...

With the release of Feb CTP, one of the known issues that's in this release is that setup might fail with a message that the server could not connect to the database. It's listed in the known issues section of the CTP notes, but here is the error and...

The latest SQL2005 Express release occured this morning, and the Feb CTP release of SQL Server Express, Express Manager, and Dotnet Framework links are listed here. These are the components that you will need to install in the order listed belowthat you...