New MSDE Installation

What is the proper way to install a new MSDE Installation?
MSDE Release A then SP4
or
Can SP4 be used for a new installation on a PC?
hi,
topherdel wrote:
> What is the proper way to install a new MSDE Installation?
> MSDE Release A then SP4
> or
> Can SP4 be used for a new installation on a PC?
you can go both way... but directly installing sp4 will result in lower
installation time...
just a caveat... at the moment is not clear to me if it's legal for non
entitled persons (people not owing a legal copy of a product entiteling for
MSDE sp4 new installation use) to use sp4 package to directly install new
instances... but it is legal to use that package to upgrade MSDE Rel. A
instances to sp4...
I've been told a refresh of MSDE Rel.A updated at sp4 level will be
available, but no idea for the time frame...
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.15.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.60.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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|||The rules seem to change with each release as to who can use it and who cannot.
"Andrea Montanari" wrote:

> hi,
> topherdel wrote:
> you can go both way... but directly installing sp4 will result in lower
> installation time...
> just a caveat... at the moment is not clear to me if it's legal for non
> entitled persons (people not owing a legal copy of a product entiteling for
> MSDE sp4 new installation use) to use sp4 package to directly install new
> instances... but it is legal to use that package to upgrade MSDE Rel. A
> instances to sp4...
> I've been told a refresh of MSDE Rel.A updated at sp4 level will be
> available, but no idea for the time frame...
> --
> Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
> http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
> DbaMgr2k ver 0.15.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.60.0
> (my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
> interface)
> -- remove DMO to reply
>
>