Question : Simple MSDE question regarding command line utilies

A couple of questions ragarding MSDE / MS SQL SERVER

I am trying to use osql command line utility to run commands on a MSDE database, but it is not installed, when I try to install just osql, it says that I am missing a pre requisite .. I believe that ms sql is not installed... how can I manage MSDE through command line without osql and if I install MS SQL, will it interfere with my current MSDE database?

Answer : Simple MSDE question regarding command line utilies

>> how can I manage MSDE through command line without osql and if I install MS SQL, will it interfere with my current MSDE database?

Ok, Kindly confirm whether you have MSDE already installed in your machine or not first since MSDE has osql installed by default.
Below link guides you how to manage MSDE using osql

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325003

And if you install MS SQL, then it will not interfere with the MSDE instance's database as it would create a new instance and have all databases in it.