Developer and enterprise edition

s the developer edition functional without having either the standard or
enterprise edition or is it an extended product.
I am trying to learn on the fly on my home pc and want to purchase SQL
server 2000. All other versions are expensive for this purpose.
Yes, Developer Edition is stand-alone. You should be able to find it for <
$50.
You can also consider MSDE ($0), but with that edition you can't use
Enterprise Manager / Query Analyzer. There are alternatives, though...
http://www.aspfaq.com/2442
"rpa" <rpa@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> s the developer edition functional without having either the standard or
> enterprise edition or is it an extended product.
> I am trying to learn on the fly on my home pc and want to purchase SQL
> server 2000. All other versions are expensive for this purpose.
>
|||Thanks Aaron,
I've been getting conflicting feedback. I want to use the query
analyzer and
enterprise manager and create a little play database and retrieve info so
the MSDE version is out of the question. I used the evaluation edition but it
has since run out.
People have just been telling me that the developer edition was an add
on to the enterpise or standard edition, somewhat like the personal edition
is part of the enterprise edition. Is that not the case?
"Aaron [SQL Server MVP]" wrote:

> Yes, Developer Edition is stand-alone. You should be able to find it for <
> $50.
> You can also consider MSDE ($0), but with that edition you can't use
> Enterprise Manager / Query Analyzer. There are alternatives, though...
> http://www.aspfaq.com/2442
>
> "rpa" <rpa@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ABC8251E-47C2-4CE8-BAAA-A00B4F447865@.microsoft.com...
>
>
|||> People have just been telling me that the developer edition was an
add
> on to the enterpise or standard edition, somewhat like the personal
edition
> is part of the enterprise edition. Is that not the case?
No, developer edition is completely separate. Ask "people" where they got
their "information"...