I have a very similar problem: first installed Express, could not find a
management console, then installed full SQL 2005, but _still_ cannot find the
management studio. I do have Visual Studio 2005 installed.
The directory C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\90\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE contains one folder, but no
excutables.

I uninstalled the SQLExpress server engine.

I have tried to separately install client tools and they appear to be
installed (such as are listed).

"Alex Maghen" wrote:

> I've just installed SQL Server 2005 on the same dev machine where I have VS
> 2005 already installed. Everything went fine. But now, I can't find any of
> the SQL Server Management tools that I remember from the previous version of
> SQLServer. I found the "SQL Server Configuration Manager," but where are the
> tools to allow me to visually create databases, navigate them, set
> permissions, etc., etc? Shortcusts for these were not installed in the
> SQLSever Start Menu folder and I don't know where to look.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alex