How to install SQLserver 2005 in windowXP with SQLserver 2..

Hello:

I have a trouble on installing sqlserver 2005 on window xp which has
sqlserver 2000 client. I would like sqlserver 2000 client and sqlserver 2005
Management Studio coexit together. However, I always got the error:
Installatioin of sql server native client failed because a higher version
already exists on the machine. To proceed, uninstall the higher version and
then run microsoft sql server native client seup again.

Thanks

If you install 2005 over 2000, it works fine. The other way around, it
doesn't work very well.

In addition, if you had some beta version of 2005 / 2008 you may also get
this error message.

Cheers,

John
http://www.sisense.com
"Business Intelligence For Everybody!"

"snow" wrote in message

> Hello:
>
> I have a trouble on installing sqlserver 2005 on window xp which has
> sqlserver 2000 client. I would like sqlserver 2000 client and sqlserver
> 2005
> Management Studio coexit together. However, I always got the error:
> Installatioin of sql server native client failed because a higher version
> already exists on the machine. To proceed, uninstall the higher version
> and
> then run microsoft sql server native client seup again.
>
> Thanks