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What if the MDF file is not registered with SQL Server can you connect to the file then?<br />
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What if the MDF file is not registered with SQL Server can you connect to the file then?



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To be able to exploit an MDF file you need at least a DBEngine that can interpretate its structure. &nbsp;In that sense the DB Engine is a necessary API for exploiting and making sense of the data stored in the file. &nbsp;Hope this helped...<br />
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Racimo
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To be able to exploit an MDF file you need at least a DBEngine that can interpretate its structure.  In that sense the DB Engine is a necessary API for exploiting and making sense of the data stored in the file.  Hope this helped...

Racimo

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so its just a sql sever specific? cause with interbase i can open a file no worries just askes for a .gdb was hoping sql server would be the same :)<br />
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but its obviously not ??
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so its just a sql sever specific? cause with interbase i can open a file no worries just askes for a .gdb was hoping sql server would be the same :)


but its obviously not ??

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I'm not familiar with Interbase but I have a great deal of experience with MS SQL Server and other RDBMS's... all of them that I know about work as I described above.<br />
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-- Lynn
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I'm not familiar with Interbase but I have a great deal of experience with MS SQL Server and other RDBMS's... all of them that I know about work as I described above.

-- Lynn

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Hey all<br />
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just wondering with the dbexpress component TSQLConnection what parameters do i need if i want to connect to directly to a SQL Server .MDF File.<br />
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currently i just work on registered databases with the paramters<br />
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User_Name<br />
Password<br />
HostName<br />
Database (which is just the name of a registered database)<br />
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but want to work on unregistered databases with just their data file<br />
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any ideas?<br />

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Hey all

just wondering with the dbexpress component TSQLConnection what parameters do i need if i want to connect to directly to a SQL Server .MDF File.



currently i just work on registered databases with the paramters

User_Name
Password
HostName
Database (which is just the name of a registered database)

but want to work on unregistered databases with just their data file

any ideas?


TSQLConnection to SQL Server file

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