SQL Server Express in APP_DATA and running with IIS
Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog,
on 31 Mar 2006 |
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I haven't really been paying much attention to SQLEXPRESS and the APP_DATA directory in the past but over the last couple of days of finalizing my slides for the ASP.NET Connections conference I realized that it's one heck of a lot easier to ship a database in APP_DATA then to have scripts or even something like Red Gate's Sql Packager generated database. Sql Packager BTW, is an excellent tool if you need to shuttle around databases frequently between machines as it packages databases into an EXE...