MSDE Installation

About a year or so ago, I had some dialog with this newsgroup about MSDE.
At that time, it seems that Microsoft or someone was making a free product
to make installations of MSDE a lot simpler. Has this been developed? I
mean no one wants to release a commerical product designed for SQL Server
among other DBs and MSDE for stand alone users and yet expect the user to be
smart enough to do much of anything in the setup. Has such a thing been
created?
I did quite a bit of research on it then, but am just now looking at the
issue afresh.
Thanks for any help,
Shane
What shall the installation do ? Something like creating a database,
creating tables, executing script for some filling tables. That works
allready, if you are developing with .NET just have a look at the Setup
Modules, these will help you further.
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
"Shane Story" <shanesREMOVETHIS@.dv-corp.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> About a year or so ago, I had some dialog with this newsgroup about MSDE.
> At that time, it seems that Microsoft or someone was making a free product
> to make installations of MSDE a lot simpler. Has this been developed? I
> mean no one wants to release a commerical product designed for SQL Server
> among other DBs and MSDE for stand alone users and yet expect the user to
> be smart enough to do much of anything in the setup. Has such a thing
> been created?
> I did quite a bit of research on it then, but am just now looking at the
> issue afresh.
> Thanks for any help,
> Shane
>
|||hi Shane,
Shane Story wrote:
> About a year or so ago, I had some dialog with this newsgroup about
> MSDE.
> At that time, it seems that Microsoft or someone was making a free
> product to make installations of MSDE a lot simpler. Has this been
> developed? I mean no one wants to release a commerical product
> designed for SQL Server among other DBs and MSDE for stand alone
> users and yet expect the user to be smart enough to do much of
> anything in the setup. Has such a thing been created?
> I did quite a bit of research on it then, but am just now looking at
> the issue afresh.
> Thanks for any help,
> Shane
do you mean
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en ?
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.11.1 - DbaMgr ver 0.57.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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|||Could be, I just remember that I wanted to do mixed security and that
required some sort of INI file or something. At least I remember there were
some settings I needed to setup and unfortunately it would have been a bear
for the user. At the time I was trying to install MSDE on a network server
for a 5-10 user .NET application. I wanted to just ship a CD and things
install easily with a server setup and client setup, but at that time this
was terrible. I remember reading that Microsoft was working on a solution.
Maybe this was it.
Have you used it?
What does the group think about it?
Grazie, Ciao,
Shane
"Andrea Montanari" <andrea.sqlDMO@.virgilio.it> wrote in message
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> hi Shane,
> Shane Story wrote:
> do you mean
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en ?
> --
> Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
> http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
> DbaMgr2k ver 0.11.1 - DbaMgr ver 0.57.0
> (my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
> interface)
> -- remove DMO to reply
>
|||Perhaps Andrea's post is the answer I was looking for. Please read my
response there and see if you have any further thoughts.
Thanks for responding.
Shane
"Jens Smeyer" <Jens@.Remove_this_For_Contacting.sqlserver2005.de> wrote in
message news:OZkqVqqSFHA.204@.TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> What shall the installation do ? Something like creating a database,
> creating tables, executing script for some filling tables. That works
> allready, if you are developing with .NET just have a look at the Setup
> Modules, these will help you further.
> HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
> --
> http://www.sqlserver2005.de
> --
> "Shane Story" <shanesREMOVETHIS@.dv-corp.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:OYg$3dnSFHA.1232@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>
|||hi Shane,
> Have you used it?
> What does the group think about it?
never used.. in it's early stage it was not that good thing everyon
expected, but do not know about the RTM... I stay wit my vb6 based interface
:D

> Grazie, Ciao,
prego, ciao :D
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.11.1 - DbaMgr ver 0.57.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
-- remove DMO to reply