Install Service With SQL Dependency

[Steve Stockstill]

I am installing a -service- that depends on SQL Server being up and running before my service starts.

I have a manual registry hack that solves the problem but it's not the most graceful approach.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

--steve

[Freshman]

I am installing a -service- that depends on SQL Server being up and running before my service starts.

I have a manual registry hack that solves the problem but it's not the most graceful approach.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

--steve

What about using "Create Servive" and enter a list of semicolon-separated names of services in the Dependencies field?

Carsten

[Steve Stockstill]

I would love to do this but the SQL Server service name can be a named instance. In other words the default MSSQLSERVER is not always the service name in the case of a named instance.