Sunday, March 26, 2006

Installer Work

More work on the installation/initialisation aspects of the DB engine and the database physical device installer now correctly writes the distribution pages to disk following successful installation of the underlying physical file.

The Device installer base class has been tweaked so that fits into the .NET framework installer system better and so far it looks good.

With physical data device installers approaching completion - only the writing of the actual root page needs to be done there - I'll move on to the file-group device installer. This installer class needs to update the root page of each device so as to identify the other members of the filegroup. This will make attaching a filegroup easier for users as they will not have to find the primary file.

Next up will be the log device installer and finally I can look at the final part of the puzzle - the databse installer itself!

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