Basic Slipstream Setup – SQL Server 2008
In my previous article I’ve posted about slipstream and we have discussed about it’s methods. In this article I’m going to write about creating basic slipstream setup in SQL Server 2008. In this method you will be merging the service pack with the base setup at the time of installation. This method is very simple and straight forward. The merged setup package cannot be reused and it’s valid only for that particular (single) installation.
Happy New Year 2010
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SlipStream in SQL Server 2008 Setup
Slipstream is a feature expected in earlier version of SQL server itself however from SQL Server 2008 SP1 it’s included. This is one of the most expected thing in SQL Server by DBA’s since windows operating system has the feature already and the system admin’s can easily update their setup packages. Now we have the capability to merge service pack with the base setup of SQL Server 2008. There are two methods of slipstream creation available and they are below
Change \ Transfer Schema for all Objects
In my working environment we will be using different schema for production and development environments. Our development apps are configured to Dev schema and Production apps are configured to Prod schema, so when we restore the db from production to development environment, all our dev apps stopped working since the objects \ securable will be using prod schema. Here I need to change the schema to dev from prod, so the syntax will be like below
Creating Linked server to SYBASE from SQL Server
In this article we going to look into creating a heterogeneous linked server. i.e. We are going to create a linked server to SYBASE database server from SQL Server environment and then going to query data’s from Sybase. First step in heterogeneous linked server is to create a ODBC connection to that RDBMS platform. For creating ODBC connection we need the ODBC drivers for that RDBMS platform. In this case we need Sybase driver in client machine, this is not included in windows so you need to download it from Sybase Website. Lets discuss on this step by step