Re: [Networker] Does Networker rely on MS SQL for its database?

NW does *NOT* use MS SQL. 

NW uses mm, res ( NSRDB, NSRLADB and NSRJOB) and the CFI. 

If someone else is using that MS SQL server for some other reason/application 
and you dare not uninstall it, then that's fine, and up to you, but that is 
not a networker question.



jee





On Monday 04 April 2011 15:27:37 Michael Leone wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> Thanks for the confirmation
>
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