how does one install client side from MSDE? Developer told us we need to install client side so he can configure database links. I can't find anything on it in MSDE 2000 Release A.
I dont understand what you meant by client side? If it is to access the MSDE
database through ADO/ADO.NET/ASP code then all you would need is MDAC 2.6.
That would be a part of normal Windows OS itself. If you are interested in
tools to access and use MSDE as Enterprise Manager etc then you can always
use third party tools for the same.
HTH,
Vinod Kumar
MCSE, DBA, MCAD, MCSD
http://www.extremeexperts.com
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"steve" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> how does one install client side from MSDE? Developer told us we need to
install client side so he can configure database links. I can't find
anything on it in MSDE 2000 Release A.
|||It sounds like he meant to install an instance of MSDE on the "client" e.g.
whatever is running the application that requires a database. I assume he
meant this, rather than having the database hosted on a separate machine.
If this is the case, then run MSDE setup on the client machine, rather than
on a server.
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.aspfaq.com/
"steve" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> how does one install client side from MSDE? Developer told us we need to
> install client side so he can configure database links. I can't find
> anything on it in MSDE 2000 Release A.
|||yes, I think this is what he wants, that the msde components are installed for the application to be able to use them. WHen I use the current MSDE 2000 release a, it doesn't give me an option of installing anything but the MSDE SQL server side. is there
a command line, file or something that we need to be able to install the client side? He told me that he hasn't used the current MSDE 2000 Service release a yet, but that in prior versions and SQL one has the option of just installing the application /
client side. Thanks in advance - Steve
|||> MSDE 2000 release a, it doesn't give me an option of installing anything
but the MSDE SQL server side.
You're thinking about this entirely in the wrong way. What your other
people are suggesting is that you treat the client as the server. So, if
you run MSDE setup on the client, it is the server. MSDE doesn't understand
what you mean by "server side"... wherever it installs, that is the server!
Now, think about the app. The app lives on the client. Install MSDE on the
machine that is running the app. Now you have a client-side MSDE install.
Pretty simple, huh?
> has the option of just installing the application / client side.
He is confused as well. Maybe he is thinking about client tools (Enterprise
Manager, Query Analyzer) which is an installation option, but client tools
don't ship with MSDE at all so it wouldn't be relevant in this case.
Re-read the above paragraph and let me know if I need to clarify further.
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.aspfaq.com/
|||hi Steve,
"steve" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:23DA0332-ACC4-4A13-82CD-604671210454@.microsoft.com...
> yes, I think this is what he wants, that the msde components are installed
for the application to be able to use them. WHen I use the current MSDE
2000 release a, it doesn't give me an option of installing anything but the
MSDE SQL server side. is there a command line, file or something that we
need to be able to install the client side? He told me that he hasn't used
the current MSDE 2000 Service release a yet, but that in prior versions and
SQL one has the option of just installing the application / client side.
Thanks in advance - Steve
MSDE insatalls only as a whole package and there has never been a Client
Components Setup for it, only just for SQL Server...
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.7.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.53.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
-- remove DMO to reply
|||First - thank you for the replies.
I am at a loss then what it is that he needs. MSDE 2000 SRa is installed on a Windows 2000 Advanced Server that I set up for this. He then installed the database onto that computer and I created a VPN so he could use his Enterprise Tools remotely to make
some configuration changes. The application that interfaces with it he built on a VB / Access97 platform. He said the client side was needed to link the application to the MSDE server and that he was having trouble linking it but that they were some oth
er ways he could try. His suggestion was that I install the "client side" items on the workstation that was going to be running the VB / Access97 user interface. While I am MS certified, in prior jobs I haven't worked much with SQL server at the install
ation phase but have rather supported the interfaces after they were written and installed by the programers. I apologize for my lack of understanding and use of wrong syntax. We've used this programmer for years and everything else he has done has been
sucessful. Perhaps he isn't able to explain what it is that he wants.
-- Andrea Montanari wrote: --
hi Steve,
"steve" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:23DA0332-ACC4-4A13-82CD-604671210454@.microsoft.com...
> yes, I think this is what he wants, that the msde components are installed
for the application to be able to use them. WHen I use the current MSDE
2000 release a, it doesn't give me an option of installing anything but the
MSDE SQL server side. is there a command line, file or something that we
need to be able to install the client side? He told me that he hasn't used
the current MSDE 2000 Service release a yet, but that in prior versions and
SQL one has the option of just installing the application / client side.
Thanks in advance - Steve
MSDE insatalls only as a whole package and there has never been a Client
Components Setup for it, only just for SQL Server...
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.7.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.53.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
-- remove DMO to reply
|||hi Steve,
"steve" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:8EBB34FC-64EC-4B21-9221-73CDECEF9DC0@.microsoft.com...
> First - thank you for the replies.
> I am at a loss then what it is that he needs. MSDE 2000 SRa is installed
on a Windows 2000
> Advanced Server that I set up for this. He then installed the database
onto that computer and I created
> a VPN so he could use his Enterprise Tools remotely to make some
configuration changes. The
> application that interfaces with it he built on a VB / Access97 platform.
He said the client side was
> needed to link the application to the MSDE server and that he was having
trouble linking it but that
> they were some other ways he could try. His suggestion was that I install
the "client side" items on the
> workstation that was going to be running the VB / Access97 user interface.
While I am MS certified,
> in prior jobs I haven't worked much with SQL server at the installation
phase but have rather supported
> the interfaces after they were written and installed by the programers. I
apologize for my lack of
> understanding and use of wrong syntax. We've used this programmer for
years and everything else
> he has done has been sucessful. Perhaps he isn't able to explain what it
is that he wants.
usually, at client side, you shoul'd only install MDAC that provides the
client side dirvers and interfaces to connect to remote SQL Server/MSDE
instances...
what your guy intended is not wrong at all, becouse he indicates to install
the Client Components for SQL Server, that includes MDAC and the whole tools
as Enterprise Manager, Query Analyzer and so on to manage SQL Server
instances.. this is fine as long as you own a full SQL Server edition that
license you to do it, while MSDE only provides a server side setup with no
management tools bu oSql.exe, a command line tool
(http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q325003)
you reported the client application is a VB / Access97 platform... then you
are only required to install VB/Access runtime dependencies and MDAC on the
clients... or just VB/Access runtime dependencies on the server... as long
as the app =;-)
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.7.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.53.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
-- remove DMO to reply
|||thank you. Steve