Sql Server 2000 Personal Edition Free Download For Windows Xp

Sql Server 2000 Personal Edition free download - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 1 Database Components, SQL Anywhere Developer Edition, and many. MAPS Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Developer Edition X09 23739 Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage, our services will be reduced today (June 15) starting at 8:30am PDT until the work is complete. SQL Server 2019 Express Edition. SQL Server 2008 Express Edition is a free, easy-to-use, lightweight, and embeddable version of SQL Server 2008. Free to download, free to redistribute, free to embed, and easy for new developers to use immediately. SQL Server 2008 Express Edition has the following benefits. SQL Server 7.0 Desktop edition is comparable to what Microsoft now calls the Personal Edition. And don’t confuse the SQL Server 7.0 Desktop Edition with the SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine; they are different products. The Standard Edition is the workhorse that most SQL Server users will want to buy.

Overview

The Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) is a data engine built and based on core SQL Server technology. With support for single- and dual-processor desktop computers, MSDE 2000 is a reliable storage engine and query processor for desktop extensions of enterprise applications. The common technology base shared between SQL Server and MSDE 2000 enables developers to build applications that can scale seamlessly from portable computers to multiprocessor clusters.

Designed to run in the background, supporting transactional desktop applications, MSDE 2000 does not have its own user interface (UI) or tools. Users interact with MSDE 2000 through the application in which it is embedded. MSDE 2000 is packaged in a self-extracting archive for ease of distribution and embedding.

In addition, MSDE 2000 can be built into applications and redistributed royalty-free with Microsoft development tools, such as Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET and Microsoft Office XP Developer Edition. This allows developers to build enterprise-class reliability and advanced database features into their desktop applications.

Portable and Compatible

MSDE 2000 is a royalty-free, redistributable database engine that is fully compatible with SQL Server. MSDE 2000 is designed to run on Microsoft Windows® 98, Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Microsoft Windows NT® Workstation version 4.0 (with Service Pack 5 or later), and Windows 2000 Professional as an embedded database for custom applications that require a local database engine.

An attractive alternative to using the Microsoft Jet database, MSDE 2000 is designed primarily to provide a low-cost option for developers who need a database server that can be easily distributed and installed with a value-added business solution. Because it is fully compatible with other editions of SQL Server, developers can easily target both SQL Server and MSDE 2000 with the same core code base. This provides a seamless upgrade path from MSDE 2000 to SQL Server if an application grows beyond the storage and scalability limits of MSDE 2000.

Download MSDE 2000

Downloadable file name: SQL2kdesksp3.exe SP3a. SP3a updates for MSDE include updates and new installations for the database components of instances of the SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine, including: The Desktop data engine. Database client connectivity components, such as the OLE DB Provider for SQL Server, the SQL Server ODBC driver, and the client Net-Libraries.

SQL2kdesksp3.exe includes all of the files that are required to install a new instance of Desktop Engine (.msi files), to upgrade all existing instances of Desktop Engine (.msp files), as well as to consume merge modules (.msm files) into applications.

Extracting MSDE 2000

After downloading the SQL2KDeskSP3.exe, you must extract the MSDE 2000 SP3a files:

Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder in which you downloaded the MSDE 2000 download file (SQL2KDeskSP3.exe).

Double click on the download file to extract the MSDE files. When asked, specify the folder into which the SP3a files can be extracted.

Installing MSDE 2000

The Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Desktop Engine includes a Setup.exe file that an application setup process can use to install the SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine. You can define settings for customizing the way Setup.exe installs SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine. These settings can be specified through either command prompt switches or an .ini file.

The example in this section will install a new instance of MSDE 2000 that has been configured with its network connectivity enabled (DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0).

These example install instances using the default for configuration items such as collation. The configurations can be controlled by setup parameters, such as COLLATION, DATADIR, and TARGETDIR in the Setup.ini File:

Setup.ini

[Options]
TARGETDIR='D:MSDEBinn'
DATADIR='D:MSDEData'

To install a default instance configured to use Mixed Mode, execute:

setup.exe /settings C:UsersZahnTestMSDEsetup.ini
SAPWD='manager' SECURITYMODE=SQL DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0
/L*v C:UsersZahnTestMSDEMSDELog.log

Note

Enter all in one line, when the setup has finished consult the logfile: MSDELog.log. You should see an icon in the taskbar where you can start and stop MSDE.

Desktop Tools

Install Desktop Tools (Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer) from the SQL Server CD.

I have to admit it, that when I first heard about this I was HIGHLY skeptical, but sure enough it actually works.

Enterprise Manager looking at the infamous PUBS database

Although I have gotten SQL Server 4.21a & 6.5 running on Windows 10 (The core from 6.0 works, but it’s pre-release COM objects for the Enterprise manager don’t like Windows 10) There were two stumbling blocks I never could get around. The first one turned out to be something trivial, which is SQL 4.21 would never listen on TCPIP.

It turns out that this actually was a simple fix.

17/09/21 19:40:24.00 server server name is ‘JADERABBIT’
17/09/21 19:40:24.00 server Recovering database ‘model’
17/09/21 19:40:24.00 server Recovery dbid 3 ckpt (45,26)
17/09/21 19:40:24.00 server Clearing temp db
17/09/21 19:40:24.03 kernel Using ‘SQLEVENT.DLL’ version ‘4.21.00’.
17/09/21 19:40:24.83 kernel Using ‘OPENDSNT.DLL’ version ‘4.21.09.02’.
17/09/21 19:40:24.83 kernel Using ‘NTWDBLIB.DLL’ version ‘4.21.00’.
17/09/21 19:40:24.83 ods Using ‘SSNMPNTW.DLL’ version ‘4.21.0.0’ to listen on ‘.pipesqlquery’.
17/09/21 19:40:24.83 ods Using ‘SSMSSOCN.DLL’ version ‘4.21.0.0’ to listen on ‘1433’.
17/09/21 19:40:26.04 server Recovering database ‘pubs’
17/09/21 19:40:26.06 server Recovery dbid 4 ckpt (469,25)
17/09/21 19:40:26.06 server Recovering database ‘ultimate’
17/09/21 19:40:26.06 server Recovery dbid 5 ckpt (524295,12)
17/09/21 19:40:26.06 server Recovery complete.
17/09/21 19:40:26.12 server SQL Server’s default sort order is:
17/09/21 19:40:26.12 server ‘bin_cp850’ (ID = 40)
17/09/21 19:40:26.12 server on top of default character set:
17/09/21 19:40:26.12 server ‘cp850’ (ID = 2)

The DLL for TCP/IP is SSMSSOCN.DLL, and it turns out it really wants to be located in the C:WindowsSysWOW64 directory (aka the system path for libraries). Well that’s all great now, isn’t it?

Not really.

ODBC Hell

Sql Server 2000 Personal Edition Free Download For Windows Xp 64-bit

The ODBC drivers in Windows 10 finally made a magical cut off point that they will not talk to any old and ‘vulnerable’ SQL Servers. This means that the oldest version you can connect to is SQL Server 2000. Even SQL 7 didn’t make the cut. Trying to connect to a SQL 7 server, you just get:

Attempting connection
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Cannot generate SSPI context

And then I saw this post, about using FreeTDS to connect to MSSQL. So I followed their instructions, and got nowhere fast just lots of crashing. Turns out the bloodshed environment’s included G++ just fails 100% of the time for me, with a nice crash. So I pointed it to the TDM GCC install, and then had to link the DLL manually and… nothing. No configuration point. In a fit of rage, I took the exist msvc project, opened it in Visual Studio 2015, and built it, except for one issue…

odbccp32.lib(dllload.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __vsnwprintf_s referenced in function _StringCchPrintfW

Seriously, it turns out that 2015 can’t just link to ODBC, that the libc thing that gave me SDL grief is deeply entrenched all over the place. So in this case you need to link against legacy_stdio_definitions.lib. Fantastic.

I get my DLL, and yes, it’s a Windows 32bit ODBC driver!

And yeah, lots of failure.

A red-herring was seeing this in the trace:

Sql Server 2000 Personal Edition Free Download For Windows Xp Operating System

So I was thinking that SQL 4.21 & 6.5 are just too old to have this weird table, and as mentioned over here people would just create it, to get Access to shut up, and get on with their lives.

So, I put in some SQL

CREATE TABLE MSysConf(CREATE TABLE MSysConf(Config int NOT NULL,chValue char(255) NULL,nValue int NULL,Comments char(255) NULL)
GO
INSERT INTO MSysConf(Config,nValue,Comments)VALUES(101,1,’Prevent storage of the logon ID and password in linked tables.’)
GO

And yes, it creates the table, Access get’s it’s result then obviously doesn’t like it and up and dies. Maybe I can burn more cycles on it later, or break down and ask.

***UPDATE As a follow up, check out Loading the MS SQL 6.5 drivers on Windows 10, for enabling ODBC access on newer versions of Windows.

SQL Server 2000 (Dev) on Windows 10

And then I saw this epic thread, Windows 10 & My SQL Server 2000 Personal.

I managed to install following these steps:

Sql Server 2000 Personal Edition Free Download For Windows Xp 64 Bit

Extract SP4
Copy ..SP4x86othersqlredis.exe to ..originalinstallpathx86other
(this avoid mdac insall freezing)
Create this folder structure (any place):
Microsoft SQL Server80ToolsBinn
Microsoft SQL ServerMSSQLBinn
Find out sqlunirl.dll on SP4 path and copy to Binn folder above
Copy dll files on ..SP4x86setup to Microsoft SQL ServerMSSQLBinn (folder above)
Copy folder structure (created on step 3) to C:Program Files (x86)
Give full access to user logged to **Microsoft SQL Server** folder
Change install compatiblity ..originalinstallpathx86setupsetupsql.exe
XP SP2
Run as administrator

**UPDATE

Newer versions of Windows 10 don’t include the old Visual C++ runtime, and the install will fail. Just copy the DLL’s into the syswow64 directory.

copy SP4x86systemmsvc?71.dll WindowsSysWOW64

This is tested on 17134.112 Version 1803 of Windows 10.

Sql Server 2000 Personal Edition Free Download For Windows Xp 32

Could that really be it? For some reason I had a file held in the ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMControlSet001ControlSession ManagerPendingFileRenameOperations registry key, preventing me from installing, but zapping the key & stub program, and I was able to follow the steps (I’m still not sure if you copy the dlls into the MSSQLBinn or ToolsBInn directories, so I copied them to both!) and yes, it worked. I even could run the SP4 update.

Sql Server 2000 Personal Edition Free Download For Windows Xp Full

Sql Server 2000 Personal Edition Free Download For Windows Xp Torrent

And now I can use Access 2016 with this fine ancient database.

Access 2016 with SQL 2000 via ODBC

Sql Server 2000 Personal Edition Free Download For Windows Xp Full Version

And here we are. As always there is no larger over reaching point to this. I did have to create a linked SQL login for myself to get ODBC to login properly but it’s somewhat simple, and honestly if that sounds bizarre to you, why are you even thinking about something like this?

For me, I’m interested in the DTS of all things. Sure the new ones are fancier, and all that jazz, but I paid good money back in the day for old MS dev tools, and being able to use them without any virtualization, aka running on bare iron is all the more appealing.