June 14, 2004 at 8:18 pm
Hi, I just went thru some hassles geting an admin to install dbnetlib for TCP/IP connections from a client to a server.
I am wondering if there is a way to have a "setup" app that can load the client libs and not need the whole SQL server CD?
anyone done this?
any ideas?
June 16, 2004 at 8:13 am
This should do the trick, although the install is silent without any visual interface as to when it is complete...
<From BOL>
sqlredis is a self-extracting executable file that can be executed by application setup programs that must install the Microsoft® SQL Server™ client connectivity components required to support the OLE DB or ODBC APIs, or any other API built over these two, such as ADO, RDO, or DAO, or the Active Template Libraries (ATL).
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sqlredis allows you to redistribute the SQL Server 2000 client connectivity components with an application that supports connections to SQL Server 2000, but assumes the customer has separately purchased and installed the SQL Server 2000 relational database engine. sqlredis is a self-extracting program that invokes an InstallShield setup; it can be executed anywhere an InstallShield setup program can be executed in the setup process of an application. sqlredis is a silent setup program; it displays no dialog boxes that require user input. sqlredis is located in the \x86\other folder on the SQL Server 2000 compact disc.
To install the SQL Server connectivity components, execute sqlredis using no parameters. Only specify the /C /T:"temporary_working_folder_path" switches if you want to see what modules are installed by sqlredis.
The SQL Server 2000 version of sqlredis accepts different parameters than the sqlredis distributed with SQL Server version 7.0 Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2. Use only the parameters documented in this topic when using the SQL Server 2000 version of sqlredis.
June 16, 2004 at 10:55 am
Thanks!
I normaly use the cd but figured there had to be a way to do it w/o a full product cd.
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