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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 8:02 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
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We are upgrading out infrastructure and would like to host Goldmine on 2012 server instead of current 2003. We are not looking to upgrade Goldmine at this point.

We only need to host goldmine on 2012, so users from windows 7 pcs can open it, anyone had luck installing GM6.7 on windows 2012? Any idea of any work around? as of right now we can not complete the installation.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:06 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
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No need to install it. It's just a file share. As such, just copy it to the new server, make sure to share it the same way it's shared on the old server, update mapped drives from the clients and update the gm.ini to point to the new location.

Of course, stored paths for reports, merge forms, linked documents, e-mail attachments, etc. may still point at the old location by machine name. In those cases, you'll need to deal with that at the database level. If you have GoldBox or DBX, LinkedDocMover or on of the other many available tools for the purpose, it's a pretty straight-forward procedure. If not, and you're on an SQL database, I have an SQL script for the purpose...

Also, if you're on an SQL database, your move will be a little more complex...

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:10 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
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I figured dbase would be as easy as you explained, but they have the SQL version, any suggestions or pointers?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 9:15 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
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too many to really list here... In short, though, it's the same. You just have to make sure the BDE is properly configured.

While it's possible to get BDE and GM6 running on that server, it's difficult, to say the least. You can, however, manage all the configuration and settings from a workstation pointing at the share and simply resign yourself to never actually running GoldMine directly on the server. If you take that approach, the biggest problem to tackle will be the document paths thing -- and the free linkeddocmover.exe ought to that care of it.. mostly...

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:14 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
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Doug - Thanks, I'll try it and let you know
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:58 pm Points: 0 Reply with quote
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We setup the server, MSSQL2008, we can connect to the database via Studio, firewall is disabled, SQL Client Tools are installed(triple checked), I was able to create ODBC data source test connection to the MSSQL server:





The issue is the that i can't configure BDE, it's just not connecting to the database, i get the error regardless. we are using the BDE Admin the one that is stored in Goldmine directory(should we use update one? or something else?)

Here are errors that i get when trying to connect. I get it regardless if i enter the password or not. I googled it and it says that SQL Client tools are missing, but again i tripple checked what i could and everything seems to be in order.



Here's my BDE setup:



Any ideas guys? is there any way to test the bde is working? actual software? or make sure sql client tools are functioning?

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:00 pm Points: 0 Reply with quote
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http://www.castellcomputers.com/files/ntwdblib.dll

download that to windows\system32

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:27 pm Points: 0 Reply with quote
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Thanks!!! That worked, I can now connect the database via BDE. I should have tried copying the file..

It's been a while since I had to setup goldmine, I'm at the point where i need to specify the database, I can't recall what to i enter/how do i navigate to the database i want to attach?



Again, thanks for the help!
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 9:34 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
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A couple of suggestions. With your SQL Server database, access the database with your Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and make sure that the database's Compatibility Level is set for "SQL Server 2000 (80)".

Also if you ever find that you have database corruption problems, one good solution is to move it back to its original compatible environment, host the data back to the old Dbase, perform full maintenance with GM and if you have it GoldBox, then re-host back to SQL.

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Depending on the database size, you may want to reconsider and re-host the files to dBase which you should be able to move more easily to the 2012 server. Then you can work on getting the SQL connectivity on the 2012 server, and re-host the dBase files back into SQL.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:56 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
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That's what we are having issues, I'm not personally working on this, but one of our tech is having issues getting SQL database there.

Any of you by chance have a blank/demo data SQL database backup of 6.7 ? Would be super helpful.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:26 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
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What specific issues is the tech having getting SQL database there. I just went through moving a very large GM6.7 database (246,000 contacts and over 4,000,000 records in some tables) from dBase to GMCE 6.7 SQL in the process of hosting to GMPE. I ran into several SQL Problems and finally solved them. Once I understand the specifics of tech's issues, I may be able to help.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:28 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
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agreed.. we need more specifics here. If you simply don't know how to point BDE at an SQL database or how GoldMine, BDE and SQL interact, we're not going to be able to help much as outlining all that would be a bit outside the scope of a message reply on a forum...

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:32 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
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Can you not rehost your 6.70 SQL database back to dBase files?

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:34 am Points: 0 Reply with quote
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The purpose of this was just to confirm that it works, we finally just created a blank SQL 6.7 database and mounted onto the server.

So 2012 Windows and Goldmine 6.7 does work, but needs some work.

thanks for all the help!
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