Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2005 NorthWind Database or AdventureWorks Database – Samples Databases – Part 2

By: Naren

Naren — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:47:30 +0000

Hey its Really gud…..
thanx a million….

By: arvind uniyal

arvind uniyal — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:44:19 +0000

i am getting this error while running command

c:\>sqlcmd -S .\InstanceName -i instnwnd.sql

HResult 0xFFFFFFFF, Level 16, State 1
SQL Network Interfaces: Error Locating Server/Instance Specified [xFFFFFFFF].
Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft SQL Native Client : An error has occurred while establi
shing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failu
re may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not
allow remote connections..
Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft SQL Native Client : Login timeout expired.

Please help .

By: Bhaskar

Bhaskar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:12:11 +0000

Thank you so much! it is very helpful and quick.

By: Shefat

Shefat — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:32:30 +0000

Hey, oceans of thanks!!!!! It worked…

By: DG

DG — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:54:56 +0000

JJ is correct. One can no longer run the downloaded SQL2000SampleDb.msi . It just produces an error saying “This installation package could not be opened”

Microsoft really knows how to screw things up!

By: Jean V

Jean V — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:43:25 +0000

Thank you!!! I was having no luck figuring out how to install Northwind until I found your site. MS should be installing these samples if they’re going to continue to refer to them in their tutorials (e.g. the VisualStudio 2008 web development “walkthrough” tutorials.)

Boy am I glad I found your site! ;0)

By: Nebyou

Nebyou — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:19:49 +0000

Thank you I have successfully Installed it,

Peace

By: Sampath

Sampath — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:37:01 +0000

Thanks Pinal!

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:35:50 +0000

Thanks a lot for this page, it was pretty helpful.

Regards from Monterrey Mexico.

By: Naveen Narayan

Naveen Narayan — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:37:19 +0000

Not able to see the files in Sql Studio Tree

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data

Is this because of user privilage issue.

Naveen

By: juancaleon

juancaleon — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:17:28 +0000

Muchas Gracias, por su aporte…. Excelente

Juancaleon

By: Suriya

Suriya — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:51:26 +0000

Thanks for your information. Its very helpful for me.

By: Ajit

Ajit — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:23:51 +0000

Great job!

By: JM

JM — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:34:26 +0000

I get the same problem as Divya

By: Divya

Divya — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:38:09 +0000

Hi Dave

I get this error when I try attaching the db.
Please Suggest.

Attach database failed for Server ‘DIVZ-PC\SQLEXPRESS’. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)

An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)

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Database ‘pubs’ cannot be upgraded because it is read-only or has read-only files. Make the database or files writeable, and rerun recovery. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3415)

By: Mohammed A. Fadil

Mohammed A. Fadil — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:36:49 +0000

Thank you very much pinaldave, the post was very helpful to me :)

By: uday kumar lazurus

uday kumar lazurus — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:37:30 +0000

Thank you very much Dave. tht was simple and very useful.

By: Sri

Sri — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:51:48 +0000

Thanks a lot Dave … It really helped me to install Pubs and Northwind

By: kalyan

kalyan — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:02:29 +0000

hi,

I was trying to install advntureswork .LT from this link

“http://www.codeplex.com/MSFTDBProdSamples/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=4004″
from which i have installed advwrks.DW and advwrks.BI which worked really well but when I was trying 4r .LT it was installed but it says “read only ”

can i know how to install it perfectly.please help me.

By: kalyan

kalyan — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:56:34 +0000

ur extremely superb.. I saved lot of my .. time to day.. thanks.. guys if ur missing the sql authority .. ur definitely missing a good one..

goodluck.