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hi all

i want to do a project in asp.net 4.0 and in back end, sql server 2008 is my option ...
what thing i should i consider in the case of database...
i mean in the case of installation,named instance, sql configuration.nt authority network service etc....


Can any help me with your valuable advice...

thanks in advance
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Installation: Let the customer take care of it. Do not attempt to install SQL Server for the customer, or automatically.
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.
Named Instance: See above
In fact, see above for all of the features you are unsure of!

For development, install SQL server or SQL server Express on your machine, and use the local instance. Keep all connection details in a configuration file so that it can be easily changed when it goes to production, without re-compiling your code.
 
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RaviRanjanKr 2-Dec-11 3:43am    
Nice answer! My 5+

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