Setting Up SQL Server for Tracking

Although you could build custom tracking services that record tracking data to various repositories (such as a message queue or data file), in this chapter we’ll concentrate on WF’s ability to record event data in a SQL Server 2005 database. WF comes with built-in support for using SQL Server 2005.

Note

Note

Because SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Express both use SQL Server Management Studio, the steps will be identical for either database service, at least as far as establishing the event tracking database itself is concerned. SQL Server Express doesn’t ship with SQL Server Management Studio, but you can download the ...

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