Missing SQLServer service pk 2

[chrissue]

Hello! Hope somebody can help. I have a Dell with windows xp.
I don't exactly know what a SQL server is for. My computer just say's I don't have one. When I try to download and intall from microsoft installer, Im told that it couldn't complete the instalation. Don't know why. :o

[breckinloggins]

Hi there!

SQL Server is a database product from Microsoft (it competes with similar products for Oracle and IBM, among others). The software that stores all the information you see on this website is a database.

Anyway, it is strange that a home or ordinary office PC would need SQL server at all, let alone the service pack for it. Perhaps you have some software you are trying to install that needs a database to work?

What exactly prompted this message to appear?