> Bet him a raise over it... 

Ah, I think not, even though I *know* I would win. :-)

> If you remove it and nothing bad happens for
> 30 days, you get a raise!, 

And fired if not? :-) I try to avoid "well, uninstall it, and see what 
breaks" ...

> otherwise ask him what 'evidence' he has that
> Networker Server 'requires' any third party database ???

His thinking is that NW uses *some* kind of database. And perhaps when 
installing it on Windows, it installs a runtime version of MS SQL. On 
Linux, a different one, etc.

> FYI - Networker is developed and maintained on a Solaris platform, not a
> Microsoft platform... So MS-SQL has absolutely nothing to do with
> Networker Server other than it's just another 'application' to be backed
> up as far as Networker is concerned... 
> 
> He's probably thinking of Backup-Exec, which does use embedded MS-SQL to
> keep track of its backup jobs and other statistics...  Whatever the
> other software was that depended on the database, it should have removed
> that dependent database when it was un-installed... 

What if it removed SQL, and there was some other app on the server that 
needed SQL? Then things would really be broken. So I can understand the 
other app not uninstalling SQL (by default; it should prompt you to also 
uninstall SQL when the app uninstalls. Removed the specific database, yes. 


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