Re: Free SQL?

From: Mark Allison (mark@allisonyourpantsmitchell.c0m)
Date: 02/26/03 

From: "Mark Allison" <mark@allisonyourpantsmitchell.c0m>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:15:31 -0000

Developer Edition is substantially cheaper than Standard Edition and has all
the features of Enterprise, but just not licensed for production. You could
also use Evaluation Edition but this is time limited and you cannot apply
service packs to it. 

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Mark Allison, SQL Server MVP
http://www.allisonmitchell.com
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"Justice" <canyonjc3@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:00d001c2ddbe$949e1cf0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
: Hello All,
:
: Please forgive the newbie question here but I just found
: out a site I am working on must use SQL server.  I have
: never programmed for SQL server and am wondering how I
: test my app locally during development? Is there a
: restricted developer edition or anything I can download
: to put on my testing server to help me develop the site?
:
: Thanks
:
: Justice
:
: (stop laughing!)
:

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