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Move from SQL Server 2005 Express to 2012 Doubles Size

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 6:27 am
by peter_ashworth
Hi,

I may be doing something wrong but cannot see it at the moment. I have a InstallAware created installer that includes the runtimes for SQL Server 2005 Express SP4. I have just changed this, replacing SQL Server 2005 Express SP4 with SQL Server 2012 Express SP1. My installer size has doubled from just over 400MB to just over 800MB. Is this expected behaviour or am I doing something wrong? If expected then this is ok, I just need to know before I change our deployment strategy.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Move from SQL Server 2005 Express to 2012 Doubles Size

Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2014 11:03 am
by FrancescoT
Dear Peter,

Unfortunately, this is due by the SQL Server 2012 Express SP1 Runtime package file size and there isn't to much to do.

We just include the Original Runtime package distributed by Microsoft with our Runtime.

Regards

Re: Move from SQL Server 2005 Express to 2012 Doubles Size

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:04 am
by peter_ashworth
Thank you for your reply. This is not a problem. I just wanted to make sure I was not doing anything incorrect.

Re: Move from SQL Server 2005 Express to 2012 Doubles Size

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2014 11:53 am
by FrancescoT
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