Moving to a shared server

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Doug Gordon

After several years of working with XPE, I'm finally getting our IT
department to put the database on a shared server instead of it being on my
personal PC. So now it will be much safer (I already had to rebuild the
whole thing after a hard-disk crash!). After our initial meeting, there were
just a couple of questions that they had:

1) The documentation says to use "SQL 2000", but can a newer version be
used?

2) Does the Repository share have to be on the same server with the SQL
database? I suspect that it does because I couldn't find a place where this
could be separately specified, but thought I'd ask.

Any other hints that I can pass along to the IT folks would be appreciated.
My level of understanding of databases, etc., does not extend to that level.

Doug Gordon
 
1. Yes, you can use the latest version.

2. Yes the repository has to be on the same server. You will also need to
install the XPe tools on the sever as well.


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Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit
 
There is a way to relocate the repositories to another share but since this
is going to be shared out possibly with other users I'd recommend against
it.

What you can do is relocate the rep folder and its files to another machine
accessible to all the users of the tools. Then from the DB server machine,
use Database Manager's Repository tab to locate the \\<local machine>\share,
you can edit this field (assuming you have admin privs) to \\<remote
machine>\share.

If you want all future reps to be redirected to this other machine, be sure
to update the 'Rep Root' field in Database Manager's Repository Tab.

Again, I'd recommend against it though.

Andy
 
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