SQL Database Deployment

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i have a application that uses a Sql database to store and retrieve the data it is working fine in my computer but unfortunately when i deploy the .mdf file of database with my application and install it on other computer it is not working the SQL database is not installed in other machine i do not want to install SQL server management utility on other computer if any one help me to do this it will solve a great problem for me......

Posted 1-Oct-13 5:35am

Zain Ul Abidin

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2013-10-01T05:53:00

You can't use an SQL database on a computer unless it has access (via the LAN perhaps) to an instance of SQL Server - because SQL server is there to insulate your program from the database file itself and allow it to be used in a multiuser environment. Any installation of SQL server will include SSMS - it has to.

So you basically have two options.
1) Install SQL server on the PC you are targetting, or on a PC on the same network segment and use that (unless such an installation already exists)
2) Change your application to use a single user database system such as SQLCE, or SQLite or even (if you must) Access - none of which will require SQL server or SSMS to be installed anywhere. You will have problems if you try to use your database for multiple users however.