MS SQL 2000 Developer Edition.

Hi.
I am looking to install MS SQL 2000 on my laptop. The
purpose of which is to develop GUI and Web applications.
These applications will be installed onto our main servers
which are running MS SQL 7 and/or 2000 (V7s are scheduled
for upgrading and the new development will not be complete
before this upgrade so no need to look at V7).
Am I right in thinking the developer edition of MSSQL2K is
the appropriate product? Does this come with the
complete "manager" program and all the online books like
the full edition?
Are there any other differences between the developer
and "standard" (or whatever this is called).
Any comments, web pages, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Richard Quadling.
P.S. Is there a better place than in the newsgroups to ask
such questions?Richard,
Yes, that would be the correct product for development work. Developer
Edition is the same as Enterprise Edition, except it is not licensed for
production use. You may want to test your application on a standard edition
server to ensure it will work in production first.
Choosing an Edition of SQL Server 2000
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinfo/planning/SQLResKChooseEd.asp
How to Buy
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/default.asp
--
Mark Allison, SQL Server MVP
http://www.markallison.co.uk
"Richard Quadling" <richard.quadling@.carval.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi.
> I am looking to install MS SQL 2000 on my laptop. The
> purpose of which is to develop GUI and Web applications.
> These applications will be installed onto our main servers
> which are running MS SQL 7 and/or 2000 (V7s are scheduled
> for upgrading and the new development will not be complete
> before this upgrade so no need to look at V7).
> Am I right in thinking the developer edition of MSSQL2K is
> the appropriate product? Does this come with the
> complete "manager" program and all the online books like
> the full edition?
> Are there any other differences between the developer
> and "standard" (or whatever this is called).
> Any comments, web pages, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
> Regards,
> Richard Quadling.
> P.S. Is there a better place than in the newsgroups to ask
> such questions?|||Thank you.