Unbundling SQLCMD From SQL Server 2005 ?

Hi all,
I was wondering if it would make sense for Microsoft to unbundle SQLCMD
from SQL Server 2005. The tool is a basically a command line *client*,
right?
I have a machine that I would love to put SQLCMD on to do remote admin
work but to do so I need to install SQL Server 2005 Express, at a
minimum. I would love to be able to just download SQLCMD (and of course
the needed DLLs) and install it.
What do you think?
-Alan
You can get it from here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...ng=en#filelist
You will need the SQL Native client and SQLCMD downloads. The filenames are
sqlncli.msi
SQLServer2005_SQLCMD.msi
HTH,
Jasper Smith (SQL Server MVP)
http://www.sqldbatips.com
"Alan Foxmore" <AFoxmore@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> I was wondering if it would make sense for Microsoft to unbundle SQLCMD
> from SQL Server 2005. The tool is a basically a command line *client*,
> right?
> I have a machine that I would love to put SQLCMD on to do remote admin
> work but to do so I need to install SQL Server 2005 Express, at a minimum.
> I would love to be able to just download SQLCMD (and of course the needed
> DLLs) and install it.
> What do you think?
> -Alan
>
|||"Jasper Smith" <jasper_smith9@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> You can get it from here
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...ng=en#filelist
> You will need the SQL Native client and SQLCMD downloads. The
> filenames are
> sqlncli.msi
> SQLServer2005_SQLCMD.msi
> --
> HTH,
> Jasper Smith (SQL Server MVP)
> http://www.sqldbatips.com
Wonderful! Thanks so much!!!!!

> "Alan Foxmore" <AFoxmore@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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