Configuring a SQL Server database

This section describes how to configure a Microsoft SQL Server database for use with SkyVault.

Install the Microsoft SQL Server database connector. The database connector allows SQL Server database to talk to the SkyVault server.
1. Download jtds-1.2.5.jar from the Microsoft SQL Server download site.
2. Copy the jTDS JDBC driver into the <TOMCAT_HOME>/lib directory for Tomcat 6.
  This release requires the jTDS driver Version 1.2.5 for compatibility with the SQL Server database.
Increase the available connections setting in the Microsoft SQL Server configuration file.
Follow these instructions to update the setting: Configuring the user connections option.
Create a database named SkyVault.
Create the database using default collation settings.
Create a user named SkyVault.
This user must have write permissions on all tables and sequences. For example, you can provide these permissions by granting your database user (in this case, the SkyVault user) the db_owner role. See Database-Level Roles for more information.
Set the new user's password to SkyVault.
Ensure the SkyVault user has the required privileges to create and modify tables.
This can be removed once the server has started, but may be required during upgrades.
Enable snapshot isolation mode with the following command:
ALTER DATABASE SkyVault SET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION ON;
Ensure that the TCP connectivity is enabled on the fixed port number 1433.
Open the <classpathRoot>/alfresco-global.properties.sample file.
Locate the following line:

dir.root=./alf_data
Edit the line with an absolute path to point to the directory in which you want to store SkyVault data. For example: dir.root=C:/Alfresco/alf_data

Uncomment the following properties:

# SQLServer connection 
#
db.driver=net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver
db.url=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://${db.host}:${db.port}/${db.name} 
db.txn.isolation=4096

Set the other database connection properties.
```
db.name=SkyVault
db.username=SkyVault
db.password=SkyVault
db.host=localhost
db.port=1433
db.pool.max=275
```
Note: Ensure that these database connection properties are not commented out.
Save the file without the .sample extension.
Restart the SkyVault server.
If you receive JDBC errors, ensure the location of the SQL Server JDBC drivers are on the system path, or add them to the relevant lib directory of the application server.

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