I’ve learnt some technical stuff today which makes the installation of our product a lot easier:
- you can tell MSDE to use mixed authentication mode by adding SECURITYMODE=SQL into the setup.ini file or as a parameter
- you can start the SQL Server and SQL Agent services using “net start MSSqlServer” and “net start SqlServerAgent”
- you can make a batch file call an external program and wait until its finished before doing the next thing by using “Start /w appname” (/w means wait)
