Install the SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition on the XP system and install the SP4 patch.

I. Install SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition 1. Find the msdedirectory in the installation disk of the SQL Server and click setup.exe to install it. The process is simple and the next step is OK. 2. restart Windows XP and the SQL Service icon appears. 3. Take out the installation CD of the SQL Server version and install the client tool directly? The simplest example is to directly click autorun.exe in the optical root directory.) do not select the mdsn Help File during installation. Install the tool as prompted. If you know that the system is not a server version during the self-check process, you will be prompted to only install the client tool. 4. Open the Enterprise Manager and try to connect to the SA user. Did you find that the SA User Login Failed? Because you have not been associated with a trusted SQL server connection. Fortunately, you only need to slightly modify the system registry: Enter Regedit in the running directory to open the Registry Editor and find [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/software/Microsoft/MSSQLServer ]. There is a key value loginmode. By default, the value is 1. Change the value to 2 and restart the computer. 5. Start enterprise management and try again. Is it OK!   Ii. Patch SP4 Install the MSDE Desktop Engine before installing SQL2000. Then install sql2000. SQL2000 upgrade instructions: 1) upgrade MSDE, patch the SQL2000.MSDE-KB884525-SP4-CHS.EXE, such as decompression to the C disk. Enter C:/sql2ksp4/MSDE/Setup/upgradesp sqlrun disablenetworkprotocols = 0/L * v c:/msdelog. Log 2) patch SQL2000-KB884525-SP4-X86-CHS.EXE. Enter select @ version in the query analyzer to view the version number. The latest version number should be Microsoft SQL Server 2000-8.00.2039 (Intel x86) Enter netstat-An In the doc to view the port number. The SQL port number is 1433. After installing two SP4 patches, you can see that the port number is enabled.