This entry is part 1 of 5 in the series AutoCAD Plant 3D on SQL ExpressToday I’m going to do a series of posts on migrating to SQL Express. Future posts will cover installation and migration details, but today I wanted to lay some of the ground work for why you would need to move
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This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series AutoCAD Plant 3D on SQL ExpressIn our initial post on using SQL Server Express with Plant 3D, we discussed some background on what SQL Express is and when you need to use it. Today’s post is going to be about installing SQL Server Express. Due
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This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series AutoCAD Plant 3D on SQL ExpressOnce you have your database server up and running and connected to user computers, you have to figure out a way to do backups. While you can manage backup through Management Studio, I was able to find and modify
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This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series AutoCAD Plant 3D on SQL ExpressNow that we have our SQL Server instance setup, we need to configure it for remote connections. Microsoft disables remote connections out of the box for security purposes. They don’t want people connecting to servers that were not intended to
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This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series AutoCAD Plant 3D on SQL ExpressI ran across these white papers on the forums and thought I’d host them here too. They cover configuration of SQL Server and migrating a project from SQLite to SQL Server.