Published: November 7, 2005 The following system requirements cover SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition on 32-bit and x64 platforms, as well as Itanium-based systems. Slaine The Boston Project Rar here.

Thanks, Joshgeake. The link does work now. I ended up resolving the issue in the meantime. I didn't really care if it was 2005 or 2008 -- but wasn't having luck with either. What ended up helping me was what Nicholas Piasecki says at the very bottom here: Basically, I needed to upgrade the Edition before the Client Tools were even available for install.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3. Developer, Standard. Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7 Additional.

Not very obvious. Once I did that (and I also made sure I had installed any available service packs for SQL Server), management studio was available and I was able to install it. Hope this helps someone! Similar help and support threads Thread Forum Having finally sourced a brand new laptop with Windows 7 Pro installed, my computing life was back to normal! I found a couple of small differences to my previous Home Premium Edition, but nothing drastic that I could not handle.