Creating Log file & Attaching db?

Bit of a SQL newbie, having taken over a support role for a piece of software that my firm sells. It is basically a DB that runs on MSDE or SQL Server in either desktop or enterprise scenarios.

We do sell our software to clients who may or may not already have SQL on their machines. During installation, it searches for sqlservr.exe for existing SQL installations and if it finds nothing, will then install MSDE 1.0 to house the db files.

My question is this -

I can manually create a db or manually attach an existing db through sql query analyser where there is a full-blown SQL installation. Is there any way I can do the same where there is only MSDE installed? The simple solution, I guess, would be to download one of the freeware or shareware MSDE "Enterprise Managers", but this won't always be suitable for a client installation.

Many thanks for your assistance all.

:cool:you could use sp_attach_db to attach a sqlserver database to sqlserver. Don't know about msde though.|||you could use sp_attach_db to attach a sqlserver database to sqlserver. Don't know about msde though.

Thanks

Yep, this is what I would use if I was doing it through the SQL. Still wondering about MSDE tho.
:confused:|||You can look into SQL-DMO and write up a quick routine that would do the attaching.