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Manually Creating the Universal CMDB Microsoft SQL Server Database

Before creating the database, you must install the Microsoft SQL Database Server according to the Microsoft SQL Server documentation.

If the Universal CMDB database is manually created prior to running the Universal CMDB setup, during the setup procedure, you select the option to use an existing database and enter the relevant data about the existing database for which you are prompted. The data you enter is written to the configuration files that are used by the JDBC driver to connect to the existing database.

Creating the Database

The database administrator should create a Microsoft SQL Server database for the CMDB data. No scripts are necessary to create the objects to populate this database.

To create a database, you must have CREATE DATABASE permissions. To connect to an existing database, the login account with which you are connecting must be mapped to dbo in the database.

Note Members of the sysadmin server role automatically have CREATE DATABASE permissions, and are also mapped to dbo in all databases. A database owner is automatically mapped to dbo in the database.

For details on creating the database manually, see Creating and Configuring the Microsoft SQL Server Database.

Note When the Universal CMDB setup procedure automatically creates the database, it uses two file groups for each database; one to hold the system tables and one for the application data.