deploying VWDxpress websites with databases?

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  • geek-y-guy

    deploying VWDxpress websites with databases?

    I have a "newbie" deployment question.

    I want to confirm what's involved in deploying a web created with Visual Web
    Developer Express Edition to a production Server2003/IIS 6 server.

    The project to be deployed has a typical membership database created through
    the administrative interface ("App_Data/ASPNETDB.MDF").

    For that dB to work on the webserver, does SQL Server Express Ed. have to be
    installed on the webserver as well?

    If so, are there any downsides to installing it, other than the performance
    issue of running a dB server on the webserver? Any security issues? This is
    not a high-traffic website.

    Or is the recommended solution, regardless, to set up a dB on a separate SQL
    server and have the user change the connection strings to use the SQL
    Server? (and copy the tables from the local dB to the server using SQL Mgmt
    Studio Express?)

    TIA, and please point me to a better group if this question is Off-Topic!


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