Re: Vista makes me crazy, please help.


"Paul Clement" <UseAdddressAtEndofMessage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Of course quite a few software applications written pre-Vista store their
data under a Program Files
folder
Yes, and the requirement that programs do not store data there predates
Vista. Your point is?

SQL Server has been around for quite a while. In any event, SQL Server runs
as a service
under a non-interactive account so it's not a typical application.
It matters not a jot if it's a service or a foreground process or whatever,
the stated requirement was not to write there.
Indeed it has been around for a while, in fact version 7 and earlier did not
use Program Files but their own folder (C:\MSSQL7) so the move to Program
Files actually post-dates the advice not to use that folder for data.
As for interaction, there is some via the system tray and there's the SQL
Service Manager which looks a bit interactive to me.

Paul, please try to objective instead of being such an obvious a Microsoft
apologist.

Dave O.


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