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

What you have installed is the Express client tools which are a couple
config programs. Because you already have them installed, setup will not
reinstall them. If you uninstall them and then install the client tools
from the full install, you should get what you want.

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"JimLudden" <JimLudden@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>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