MSDE 2000 database setup trouble

Hello
I am running a stand-alone test environment for an application in XP Pro
which I can only use MSDE to manage my databases.
I've successfully installed msde and am finally able to connect using 'osql
-Usa -Ppassword -S (local)\testmachine' , because I can get the '1>' command
prompt.
My trouble is when I try to create and/or restore a database for the test
application to use I'm running into trouble. For example enter this :
1> USE master
2> RESTORE DATABASE master FROM DISK='C:\master\master_db2.BAK'
3>GO
and I get an error message telling me that "RESTORE DATABASE must be used in
single user mode when trying to restore the master database" ...... I also
get a similar message when trying to create and restore a database called
'public'.
how do I successfully get into 'single user mode' ?
hi,
APB wrote:
> Hello
> I am running a stand-alone test environment for an application in XP
> Pro which I can only use MSDE to manage my databases.
> I've successfully installed msde and am finally able to connect using
> 'osql -Usa -Ppassword -S (local)\testmachine' , because I can get the
> '1>' command prompt.
> My trouble is when I try to create and/or restore a database for the
> test application to use I'm running into trouble. For example enter
> this :
> 1> USE master
> 2> RESTORE DATABASE master FROM DISK='C:\master\master_db2.BAK'
> 3>GO
> and I get an error message telling me that "RESTORE DATABASE must be
> used in single user mode when trying to restore the master database"
> ...... I also get a similar message when trying to create and
> restore a database called 'public'.
> how do I successfully get into 'single user mode' ?
have a look at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms180965.aspx ..
typically you open a command window, navigate to the \Binn folder of the
instance you want to start and execute something like
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Binn\>sqlservr.exe -s
InstanceName -m
this will start the instance in single user modo, so that you'll be able to
restore the master database...
to restore "normal user's" database(s) the single user mode is not required,
but the database(s) to be restored must not be in use... so no active
connections must be running against the database(s) to be restored..
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.bizhttp://italy.mvps.org
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MSDE 1 => msde 2 => MSDE 2 SP3a

I'm able to successfully upgrade my MSDE 1 installation from Office 2k to
MSDE 2, using any of the versions 1 thru 3a. However, I can't figure out
the command-line parameters to upgrade MSDE 2 to a newer version of MSDE 2,
at least not retaining my Office Server Extensions database. Considering
that SP 4 for MSDE 2 will probably be out soon, what's the proper method to
upgrade MSDE 2 when it was used to upgrade MSDE 1?
Well, I figured out the easy way to do things. First, you install MSDE 2.
Then you install office server extensions using the /nd switch to avoid
installing an older version of MSDE. Had a lot of registry cleaning to do,
had to unregister ows.dll, and a few other problems to fix before I could
get a successful install of OSE. Works fine, though. I was even able to
apply the OSE SP3 patch.
"Ellen Langton" <elangton@.wctc.net> wrote in message
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> I'm able to successfully upgrade my MSDE 1 installation from Office 2k to
> MSDE 2, using any of the versions 1 thru 3a. However, I can't figure out
> the command-line parameters to upgrade MSDE 2 to a newer version of MSDE
2,
> at least not retaining my Office Server Extensions database. Considering
> that SP 4 for MSDE 2 will probably be out soon, what's the proper method
to
> upgrade MSDE 2 when it was used to upgrade MSDE 1?
>
|||Well, I figured out the easy way to do things. First, you install MSDE 2.
Then you install office server extensions using the /nd switch to avoid
installing an older version of MSDE. Had a lot of registry cleaning to do,
had to unregister ows.dll, and a few other problems to fix before I could
get a successful install of OSE. Works fine, though. I was even able to
apply the OSE SP3 patch.
"Ellen Langton" <elangton@.wctc.net> wrote in message
news:emnXe$XCFHA.3688@.TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> I'm able to successfully upgrade my MSDE 1 installation from Office 2k to
> MSDE 2, using any of the versions 1 thru 3a. However, I can't figure out
> the command-line parameters to upgrade MSDE 2 to a newer version of MSDE
2,
> at least not retaining my Office Server Extensions database. Considering
> that SP 4 for MSDE 2 will probably be out soon, what's the proper method
to
> upgrade MSDE 2 when it was used to upgrade MSDE 1?
>

MSDE

I successfully installed MSDE, but I cannot open the application.
All my files and folder are installed under: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL$NETSDK. My operating system is Windows XP Professional and my
Internet Explorer is version 6.0.
What do I need to do? Please advice.
Thank you!
Hi
With MSDE, there is no application you can run. It is a database engine and
does not have a UI.
Generally developers write and application that uses MSDE as the database.
You could use Microsoft Access to access it through an ODBC connection.
Regards
Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Zurich, Switzerland
IM: mike@.epprecht.net
MVP Program: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/epprecht/
"gacevedo" <gacevedo@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I successfully installed MSDE, but I cannot open the application.
> All my files and folder are installed under: C:\Program Files\Microsoft
> SQL
> Server\MSSQL$NETSDK. My operating system is Windows XP Professional and
> my
> Internet Explorer is version 6.0.
> What do I need to do? Please advice.
> Thank you!
|||However, it seems we couldn't use Access 2003 to create table with MSDE 2005
express. Is it normal? Or any patch we need to install? Thanks.
"Mike Epprecht (SQL MVP)" <mike@.epprecht.net> wrote in message
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> Hi
> With MSDE, there is no application you can run. It is a database engine
> and does not have a UI.
> Generally developers write and application that uses MSDE as the database.
> You could use Microsoft Access to access it through an ODBC connection.
> Regards
> --
> Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
> Zurich, Switzerland
> IM: mike@.epprecht.net
> MVP Program: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
> Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/epprecht/
> "gacevedo" <gacevedo@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:888E44C1-B974-4EC7-96B6-F52E79AE6250@.microsoft.com...
>
|||The Access 2003 tools (and the VS 2003 database tools) aren't compatible
with the SQL 2005 meta-data so you won't be able to use them. There
currently isn't a new version of this available.
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"Good" <good@.man.com> wrote in message
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> However, it seems we couldn't use Access 2003 to create table with MSDE
> 2005 express. Is it normal? Or any patch we need to install? Thanks.
> "Mike Epprecht (SQL MVP)" <mike@.epprecht.net> wrote in message
> news:erAE1RCBGHA.3536@.TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>