[dba-SQLServer] File extensions

Yes and no ;-)

MSDE you just get the db and engine...  
Full SQL Server you get the tools.
Sounds like msde, if they don't know what it is...
You should be able to connect to it using Access.adp?
When you choose connect it should list any SQL servers/MSDE's available.

cheers

Michael M

Thanks Michael. Taking it home may not be on. Whilst I have SQL server
theyy, as far as I know, just have a 3rd-party app that (I think) uses
SQL server as a BE. So they probabaly don't have EM or any tools. Would
that be right? If someone supplies a product using a SQL Server BE I'm
assuming they don't supply much more than the database and drivers.
--
Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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From: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
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Subject: RE: [dba-SQLServer] File extensions
Date: 14/09/04 10:23

>
> Andy,
>
> I'm pretty sure with sql you can give it any extension.  However the 
> defaults are mdf for the data and ldf for the log file.
>
> As to taking the files home... well maybe, maybe not ;-) You will need

> to hook up an interface of some kind to see what what with SQL.  (You 
> probably can do it from cmd line but I'm not sure) You need Enterprise

> Manager(EM) or some other tool, there are free ones out there but I 
> don't have a link.
> >From EM I would backup the db (may be more then 1 data file), take

> the backup home, restore it with EM.
> If the db is over 2gb you will need the full SQL server, if less then 
> MSDE should be OK.
>
> hope that's enough to get you started?
>
> cheers
>
> Michael M
>
> Sent this hours ago but hasn't appeared, hence trying again  -  so 
> apologies in advance when the original turns up.
>
> Hello good people on this wet and windy Autumn evening in the UK
>
> Simple question from a simple soul. I keep a weather eye on the SQL 
> server list but never having actually developed a SQL system my 
> question
> is: if I go to look at a client's existing system how can I tell if it

> is SQL (which I think it is)? Would file suffixes tell me, or can a 
> developer call a database anything he/she likes? And if the file 
> suffixes are the answer what are the magic three letters? Going on 
> from there, if I was offered the opportunity to take the data away to 
> have a look at it can I just zip up a file or two, and if so what 
> would I need in order to be able to read the data in Access when I got
back home?
>
> -- Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
>
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