How To Integrate Sql Server 2005 Express In My Window Application Before I Built Setup Wizard

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How to keep or integrate sql server 2005 express edition(.exe) file in my window form before i built setup wizard.so that sql server 2005 express edition have to install in the client system silently when client installs my window form exe in his system . (sql server 2005 express is to access my .mdf file which had been placed in my window application ) help me out from this issue !!!

Posted 31-Oct-14 19:53pm

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PIEBALDconsult 1-Nov-14 2:21am

Don't even try it. You can probably specify it as a prerequisite, but _do_not_ try to install it, especially "silently".
The client may already have SQL Server installed, perhaps even on a server and you _must_ allow him to use that.

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2014-10-31T20:47:00

You should not include SQL Server in your installation. There are a couple of reasons:
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.

If you are only accessing the DB as a single user, then don't use SQL at all - use Access, SQLite, or SQLCE instead.