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Deploy Sql Server in .NET using my application??? how we use made this...
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Bad idea:
0) You can only distribute SQL Server Express for copyright reasons - not SQL Server full version.
1) They may already have SQL Server installed on the network. If so, then they will presumably want to use that version.
2) If they do have SQL server installed and you start proliferating SQL server Express instances, you are going to annoy the heck out of the database administrator...
3) A single site installation of SQl Server is a lot more likely to be backed up than a number of scattered version under user control.
4) Sql server is quite complex for a "normal" user to install and administer - it is not a good idea!
5) It will destroy the primary advantage of using Sql Server over SqlCE or SQLite - multiuser access. If everyone installs their own copy of SQL server, then you will have multiple copies of your database, each used by a single person. This will cause some confusion, and (depending on how you wrote the original database) may take some considerable effort to combine into a single instance when the problem is realized.
 
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Member 8227929 22-Oct-12 8:11am    
How we deploy sql server express in our setup file???
thnks in advanced .....
[no name] 22-Oct-12 8:25am    
You cant distribute SQL Server in your package. That will be against to thier agreement.
besides the liscense issue you can automate steps mentioned in this URL

Install SQL SERVER Using config file[^]
 
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