"Alan Foxmore" <AFoxm***@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_smi***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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

> "Alan Foxmore" <AFoxm***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:OH2T3m%23VGHA.5076@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>
>
>