<MachineName>\NETSDK installation

I downloaded something that installed an SQL instance of <Machine
Name>NETSDK. It contains Northwind, Pubs, and other sample databases. Does
anyone know how I got this? For the life of me I can't remember.
Marty
If you installed .NET SDK (not just .NET framework), that is when you might
have also installed MSDE. But it would be installed automatically. It is
only when you choose to install .NET tutorial.
"Marty" <Marty@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I downloaded something that installed an SQL instance of <Machine
> Name>NETSDK. It contains Northwind, Pubs, and other sample databases. Does
> anyone know how I got this? For the life of me I can't remember.
> Marty
|||Is .NET SDK part of MSDE? If not, where can I get it?
Thanks for your help
"Norman Yuan" wrote:

> If you installed .NET SDK (not just .NET framework), that is when you might
> have also installed MSDE. But it would be installed automatically. It is
> only when you choose to install .NET tutorial.
> "Marty" <Marty@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ADD3968D-7B7C-4456-9FEE-50A61C040810@.microsoft.com...
>
>
|||"Marty" <Marty@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is .NET SDK part of MSDE? If not, where can I get it?
> Thanks for your help
>
NetSDK is the name of your MSDE instance. That name was used because the
scripts set up to create your sample databases (Pubs, Northwind, etc.) were
written to expect that instance name.
As you say those databases have been created, it looks as if everything is
as it should be.
Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
Jack of all trades, master of none.
|||But where did it come from? The the best of my knowledge, MSDE made an
instance called <MachineName>. Where did <MachineName>\NETSDK come from?
"Peter van der Goes" wrote:

> "Marty" <Marty@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:595F40A2-ED7C-4A39-AD93-B6D76B1E111C@.microsoft.com...
> NetSDK is the name of your MSDE instance. That name was used because the
> scripts set up to create your sample databases (Pubs, Northwind, etc.) were
> written to expect that instance name.
> As you say those databases have been created, it looks as if everything is
> as it should be.
> --
> Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
> Jack of all trades, master of none.
>
>
|||When installing SQL Server/MSDE, you can choose to use INSTANCE name or not
to. Your "<MachineName\NetSDK" instance on MSDE IS from your installation
with or without your awareness. As I said, in previous reply, it is most
likely installed when you set up .NET tutorial. from .NET document. Of
course you can choose to install it without instance name in the
expenctation that .NET tutorial not working.
"Marty" <Marty@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> But where did it come from? The the best of my knowledge, MSDE made an
> instance called <MachineName>. Where did <MachineName>\NETSDK come from?
> "Peter van der Goes" wrote:
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|||No, I didn't. When I installed MSDE I used the command line: setup SAPWD=
<password> SecurityMode=SQL. That's it. And it's not just an instance. I
contains databases.
"Norman Yuan" wrote:

> When installing SQL Server/MSDE, you can choose to use INSTANCE name or not
> to. Your "<MachineName\NetSDK" instance on MSDE IS from your installation
> with or without your awareness. As I said, in previous reply, it is most
> likely installed when you set up .NET tutorial. from .NET document. Of
> course you can choose to install it without instance name in the
> expenctation that .NET tutorial not working.
> "Marty" <Marty@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:394A46D6-F165-4A8C-9F1D-6219828A3205@.microsoft.com...
> were
> is
>
>
|||There is another argument for the command line setup:
INSTANCENAME="InstanceName". If you did not specify instance name and you
get <MachineName>\NETSDK, then it can only be explained by that you used the
MSDE coming with .NET SDK or VisualStudio.NET. If your MSDE is directed
downloaded from MS site or from MS Office Pro/Access, the installation would
not add "NetSDK" instance name automatically.
BTW, If you do not like the instance name, you can uninstall and reinstall
the MSDE.
"Marty" <Marty@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> No, I didn't. When I installed MSDE I used the command line: setup SAPWD=
> <password> SecurityMode=SQL. That's it. And it's not just an instance. I
> contains databases.
>
> "Norman Yuan" wrote:
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|||It was downloaded from MS. But I installed something else and I don't know
what. Add/Remove programs shows MSDE and MSDE (NETSDK). I must have installed
something else because there are two entries but I only installed MSDE once.
"Norman Yuan" wrote:

> There is another argument for the command line setup:
> INSTANCENAME="InstanceName". If you did not specify instance name and you
> get <MachineName>\NETSDK, then it can only be explained by that you used the
> MSDE coming with .NET SDK or VisualStudio.NET. If your MSDE is directed
> downloaded from MS site or from MS Office Pro/Access, the installation would
> not add "NetSDK" instance name automatically.
> BTW, If you do not like the instance name, you can uninstall and reinstall
> the MSDE.
> "Marty" <Marty@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:46041F11-611A-4F8D-8B84-67E1D963FB17@.microsoft.com...
> not
> installation
> from?
> the
> etc.)
> everything
>
>
|||For the public, although roblem has already been solved via IM: Those
databases can be downloaded at Microsoft under the folling link:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
"Marty" <Marty@.discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>I downloaded something that installed an SQL instance of <Machine
> Name>NETSDK. It contains Northwind, Pubs, and other sample databases. Does
> anyone know how I got this? For the life of me I can't remember.
> Marty