Oy Gevald!
So I'm signed up at work for a class in .Net 4.0, and we were given a list of prerequisites, to ensure that our machines would be ready for the class. One of the things was to install the Northwind database on our local SQL Server (Express) database. So the week before, I tried. Nothing doing. Didn't have the permissions to install anything local. O.K., so I opened up a case for the PC Team to give me the permissions. Finally the afternoon before the class, the guy from the PC Team comes and can't do anything. So they call the SQL Server DBAs. Guy comes down, same problem. He decrees, must be something wrong with the installation, you need to uninstall and reinstall the SQL Server client. I'm not happy, but I don't have any choice. So I get kicked off of my machine. The PC guy uninstalls the client, but doesn't reinstall it that night. Next day I have the class. I'm stuck first half of the morning without my computer as he is now installing the SQL Server client. Finally I get an SMS from the PC Team guy that I can remotely log into my machine so I can do my classwork. So I log in, and check, now not only do I NOT have permissions, I can't even log in to the SQLExpress on my machine. He closes the case. I reopen it, as I complain that the SQL Express database is missing, and he needs to install it. He calls in the DBA. They're looking at the client, and they can't see anything wrong. Nobody does anything for a week, and my class comes around again. Again, I ask them to install it, and they say that there's something wrong with the computer, but the DBA installs the Northwind database on the development database as a temporary measure. Which means that certain profiling I can't do, b/c, I don't have permissions for it. So the PC Team guy confers with the DBA guy, and they both say, there must be something wrong with my computer, so they have a new solution... they're going to give me a new more powerful computer. I completely balk at this. I have way too many custom things installed on my computer. When I upgraded last year, it took over a month just to get my computer fully configured and working. I pleaded, I have an idea, let's just put on the Express installation from Microsoft. At first the PC Team guy said, no way, it'll destroy the machine, you can't have SQL Server 2008 and 2008 Express on the same machine. Finally after 10 minutes of pleading with him, he said, o.k....you do it...it's your responsibility. So I said, O.K...I'll do it. So I installed it. 1/2 hour later, I go into the 2008 client, and lo and behold! The SQL Express is there, I can log in to it, and I have full permissions. And then proceed to install the Northwind database myself. Everything ready for tomorrow!...And that's why I have full confidence in my company's PC Team and DBAs - to resolve a permissions issue, they offer me a whole new, more powerful computer!
My personal hashkafa is that when someone offers me a "whole new, more powerful computer," my response is to say, "OK, thanks very much!" But I'm glad you managed to work out the installation. See how much you learn this way? :-)
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