MSDN SQL Client & DB Free Downloads
Ever got a new Corp laptop and noticed your basic DB devloper software was not installed or not available in the sofware center.
Of course, so we SSO over to MSDN and get that SQL only to find we can't open the ISO, or the EXE is blocked. Note: ISO can be mounted with zip tools (not covered here).
Next, we just go to the public MS download for SSMS or SQL Express only to get some odd error such as "location is empty" e.g. download seems to start then that error.
Well, that is your Corp Network Proxy blocking these files.
So, it sure would be nice if somone posted a .zip for these.
Steps:
- Choose your download
- After downloading, unzip it
- Rename extracted file to include the extension .exe
Note: this was added as some proxies examine extensions as well.
Thess zips are just renamed binaries w/o the obvious .exe
Download SSMS (zip)
or Microsoft .exe Scroll to Download SSMS 21 Download
