I forgot to mention that Northwind is not the best for SQL 2005 - they brought out adventureworks to show it off - you can get that at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

thats cool

have you guys used SQL express?

thats much easier to transfer database IMHO - i export my databases and send them as part of the installer along with my Visual Studio / Visual Web Developer applications.

We use both depending on the app. I have SQL for web apps, we also code for company sql databases and we use SQL express for some small desktop apps but mainly use SQL express so our users can work offline and then it will sync back to a main SQL Database when they are connected to the net

yeah, i use Express for development