No, You need to be part of administaror group in local machine to install SQL Server. After thay you could configure a less previlage user with specific rights to SQL Server for the service startup account. Thanks Hari "KS Hawks" <KS Hawks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:76350900-91A6-446D-A263-11F175E84B72@microsoft.com... Is there a way to install SQL 2000 PE ...

...> For a database the owner will be one and we can designate multiple database owner role. This will give the users will DBO role to perform tasks coming under that role with out giving extra previlages. Use the below command to give DB_owner role to a db user. EXEC sp_addrolemember 'db_owner', 'DB_user' .IN SQL 2000 the maximum bytes a CHAR and NVARCHAR supports is 8000 bytes....

...For a database the owner will be one and we can designate multiple database owner role. This will give the users will DBO role to perform tasks coming under that role with out giving extra previlages. Use the below command to give DB_owner role to a db user. EXEC sp_addrolemember 'db_owner', 'DB_user' .IN SQL 2000 the maximum bytes a CHAR and NVARCHAR supports is 8000 bytes. The float...