Thursday, March 22, 2012

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* tool, 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?

Thanks.

-Alan

This question was answered in a posting to 'microsoft.public.sqlserver.tools' by Jasper Smith:

You can get it from here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d09c1d60-a13c-4479-9b91-9e8b9d835cdc&displaylang=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

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