Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 08/31/06 21:34

To beat this dead horse a little more, I looked what it's in the extracted
install file, and while it's possible that you could remove some files
for documentation or tools, there is not much to win. Besides installation
would surely fail.

The two largest file in the pack are mssqlsystemresource.mdf and
sqlerver.exe and together they account for more than the full SQLEXPR.EXE.
And few files are more essential than these two...

So you need to learn how to incorporate SQLEXPR.EXE in your setup.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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