Sound reasonably simple right? Well as always, the devil is in the details. Connect your P6 Professional Client to that database.Connect the database setup tool to your SQL Express database instance.Download and run the appropriate version of the Database Setup tool.Install a copy of Microsoft SQL Express on your computer.Being somewhat simpler to install, configure and backup, SQL Server is a good alternative. That said, for those P6 R8.3 users wishing to move off the Oracle XE and on to something simpler, there’s still the Microsoft SQL Express database option. Oracle clearly recognizes that consumers of Primavera P6 Professional aren’t necessarily Oracle database experts, and thus removed that need for standalone users making everything very simple. In fact, unlike the Oracle XE install, which can take upwards of 20 minutes to install on your machine, you will not even be aware that SQLite got installed. See our blog about installation of the Primavera P6 Professional R8.4 release. On a side note: with the recent release of Primavera P6 Professional R8.4, Oracle themselves have abandoned the Oracle XE database for P6 in favor of SQLite, a popular, open source database that installs quickly and easily as part of the standalone installation options: a smart move indeed. However, this doesn’t always go smoothly and we’ve received numerous enquiries for help getting P6 to connect to that XE database once the installation completes: it’s evidently a common problem. Primavera P6 R8.3 installs a copy of the free Oracle XE database on your computer when you choose the standalone installation option. This article looks at the process for setting up Primavera P6 Professional R8.3 to use the Microsoft SQL Server database, rather than with Oracle XE for standalone use. If you’ve been having issues trying to run Primavera P6 Professional as standalone on the Oracle XE database, or you simply want to run standalone when not on the company network and are not an Oracle database expert you can use a Microsoft SQL Server Express database instead.

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