I have recently built some software for our company we are potentially looking to sell.
Currently we I have SQL Express 2012 installed on a Windows Server 2012 server. I attached the database and manage it using SQL Server Management Studio 2012.
Client servers connect to the database through the application by specifying ServerName\Instance and credentials.
I would just some advice on other ways to access the SQL database. I know some Sage products simply have a .mdb/mdf file sitting on a network share. The client machines that access it don't have SQL server installed on them, so not really sure how it works.
Any advice would be appreciated!
My current method works well, although I couldn't really create a windows installer package to create a SQL server and attach a database and perhaps customers do not have an available server to run...