Connect .mdf file to MSDE 2000

I'm using a product (SAP Business one) using MSDE 2000A. Another product I
receintly bought also uses SQL. According to this products manual I need to
connect the *.mdf database to my SQL server using SQL Enterprise Manager. How
does it work?
hi,
GV wrote:
> I'm using a product (SAP Business one) using MSDE 2000A. Another
> product I receintly bought also uses SQL. According to this products
> manual I need to connect the *.mdf database to my SQL server using
> SQL Enterprise Manager. How does it work?
you are required to "attach" the provided database to an existing SQL
Server/MSDE instance...
as MSDE does not provide Entrprise Manager, you have to resort on the
command line tool, oSql.exe, to execute the corresponding Transact-SQL
statement to attach the database using the system stored procedure
sp_attach_db...
you can find the full synopsis of the introduced stored procedure at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ae-az_52oy.asp
at http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q325003 you will
find some information on how to use oSql.exe to perform this task as long as
other related management tasks..
for your convenience, you can have a look at a free prj of mine, available
at the link following my sign., which provides a graphical user interface
similar to Enterprise Manager in order to accomplish management tasks,
including the one here discussed..
futher tools for MSDE, both commercial and free, are listed
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/partners/default.asp and/or
http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2442
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.10.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.56.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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