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WHAT NEXT AFTER INSTALLING SQL SERVER EXPRESS?

I have installed SQL Server Express with Advanced Services SP1 option. I am not really sure if I should have done this but I could not resist the temptation to have as many options as I could get. I even installed some samples/sample databases.

However, I cannot understand how to start using the SQL Express package which (unlike the Visual Basic 2005 Express or the Web Developer Express I also downloaded) does not show me a start up page. I get SQL Server Configuration Manager, SQL Server Error and Usage Reporting and SQL Server Surface Area Configuration, all from Configuration Tools. I have no idea how to proceed.

Could I have downloaded the wrong package?

[685 byte] By [Glint] at [2007-12-24]
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Ok well I'd install the tools next. You can get those here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/ See SQL Server Management Studio Express Mid-page (step 3) on the Left.

Thanks,

AWAL

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