MSDE Licencing confusion

Hi,
If I install MSDE on a live deployed server and manage it using SQL Server
2000 DEVELOPER Edition, which is installed on another machine, would I be
breaking the
licencing rules?
By manage, I mean use Enterprise Manager to perform maintenance tasks etc.
Our situation is that we currently have SQL Server 7 running our business
databases. We want to upgrade to SQL Server 2000 but only have a Developer
Edition which came with our MSDN kit.
We could upgrade to v7 to v2000 but I wanted to first consider the
alternative (cheaper) options.
Ta.
Bugger, posted the question before reading this line on
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/howtobuy/msdeuse.asp
"Note: The tools and services included with SQL Server Developer Edition may
not be used to manage production server environments."
Sorry about that. Any comments further to that or suggestions regarding what
I'm considering doing would still be most welcome.
Thanks again.
|||hi,
Swaffs wrote:
> Hi,
> If I install MSDE on a live deployed server and manage it using SQL
> Server 2000 DEVELOPER Edition, which is installed on another machine,
> would I be breaking the
> licencing rules?
> By manage, I mean use Enterprise Manager to perform maintenance tasks
> etc.
> Our situation is that we currently have SQL Server 7 running our
> business databases. We want to upgrade to SQL Server 2000 but only
> have a Developer Edition which came with our MSDN kit.
> We could upgrade to v7 to v2000 but I wanted to first consider the
> alternative (cheaper) options.
>
you would break the EULA this way.. .but you can perhaps have a look at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
... it's the evaluation edition fo SQL Server 2000 with 120 days trial..
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.12.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.58.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
-- remove DMO to reply
|||Have you tried any other tools (free tolls) to manage your database?
Linda
"Swaffs" <Swaffs@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Bugger, posted the question before reading this line on
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/howtobuy/msdeuse.asp
> "Note: The tools and services included with SQL Server Developer Edition
> may
> not be used to manage production server environments."
> Sorry about that. Any comments further to that or suggestions regarding
> what
> I'm considering doing would still be most welcome.
> Thanks again.