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Comment: Added docs regarding additional support of SQL Server 2005

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  • JDK 1.6 update 21 or later (JDK 1.7 is not supported as of 2012/04)
  • Tomcat 6.X (Tomcat 7 is not supported as of 2012/04)
  • PostgreSQL 8 or later or Microsoft SQL Server 2008 2005 or newer
    • PostgreSQL
      1. Download source http://www.postgresql.org
        • On Unix:
        • On Mac:
          • PostgreSQL is available via the homebrew package manager or as a download on the postgresql.org site.
        • On Windows:
          • PostgreSQL is available as a download on the postgresql.org site.
      2. Configure PostgreSQL

        1. Connect via pgadmin or your preferred db admin tool

        2. Create the "ssp" & "sspadmin" users and the "ssp" database.

    • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 2005 or newer
      • JDBC Driver
        1. Download the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC driver from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/aa937724.aspx
        2. Rename the downloaded file extension from .exe to .zip. Unzip the sqlserver-jdbc4-3.0.jar file to a directory of your choice.
        3. Place the JAR file in the Tomcat/shared/lib directory.
      • Server Connection
        1. Launch the SQL Server Management Studio application
        2. Enter your database connection info including administrator account credentials, and click Connect
      • Login Roles
        1. Navigate to Security->Logins, and right click on New Login
          1. Login name of "sspadmin" without the quotes

          2. Select SQL Server authentication and enter a Password of "sspadmin" without the quotes

          3. Uncheck Enforce password policy
          4. Click OK

        2. Right click on Logins again, and New Login Role

          1. Login name of "ssp" without the quotes

          2. Select SQL Server authentication and enter a Password of "ssp" without the quotes

          3. Uncheck Enforce password policy
          4. Click OK

        3. Confirm the new users exist
      • Database
        1. Navigate to and right click on Databases and click New Database
          1. Enter "ssp" without the quotes as the database name
          2. Click OK
        2. Confirm the new database exists
        3. Run the following SQL to associate the new user accounts with the correct permissions on the new database:
          • USE [ssp]
            GO
            IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT name FROM sys.filegroups WHERE is_default=1 AND name = N'PRIMARY') ALTER DATABASE [ssp] MODIFY FILEGROUP [PRIMARY] DEFAULT
            GO
            IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT name  FROM sys.database_principals WHERE name = 'ssp')
            BEGIN
            CREATE USER [ssp] FOR LOGIN [ssp]
            EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datawriter', N'ssp'
            EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datareader', N'ssp'
            END
            GO
            CREATE USER [sspadmin] FOR LOGIN [sspadmin]
            GO
            EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_owner', N'sspadmin'
            GO

Info
titleRDBMS Platform Flexibility

Currently SSP supports use of PosgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008, or 2008 R2.  The project team develops and tests against PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server.

Future support for Oracle and other RDBMS is planned.

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