Tip of the Day – SQL Server Client tools

You don’t have to install all of the full SQL Server client tools to get connectivity to SQL Server or analysis services.  They have been broken up and are available individually for download as part of the SQL Server feature pack.

For example you can pull down:

• SQL Server 2008 native client.
  • X86 Package (sqlncli.msi) - 4549 KB
    X64 Package (sqlncli.msi) - 7963 KB
    IA64 Package (sqlncli.msi) - 11112 KB
• SQL Server Management Objects (SMO)
  • X86 Package
  • (SharedManagementObjects.msi) - 3225 KB
  • X64 Package
  • (SharedManagementObjects.msi) - 3895 KB
  • IA64 Package
  • (SharedManagementObjects.msi) - 5640 KB
• Analysis Services 10 OLE DB Driver.

  • X86 Package (SQLServer2008_ASOLEDB10.msi) - 19490 KB
    X64 Package (SQLServer2008_ASOLEDB10.msi) - 43945 KB
    IA64 Package (SQLServer2008_ASOLEDB10.msi) - 50682 KB

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• Analysis  Server  Management Objects (AMO)

  • X86 Package (SQLSERVER2008_ASAMO10.msi) - 2659 KB
    X64 Package (SQLSERVER2008_ASAMO10.msi) - 4317 KB
    IA64 Package (SQLSERVER2008_ASAMO10.msi) - 6055 KB

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• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.2 to connect to SQL Server from Java
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Driver for PHP to connect to SQL server from PHP

There’s also a load of other utilities like backward compatibility stuff e.g. to edit and run data transformation services packages.

Finally as I have blogged before these tools are not licensed in themselves, it is SQL Server that is licensed for either client access or per cpu (socket NOT core).

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