User guide

Installation & Setup User Guide

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Appendix C: The Database Setup Program

The Database Setup program performs database-related functions and needs to be

run to create any database.

Database Setup Options Window

This radio button: Does this:

Create new database

Select this radio button if you have installed the B.A.S.I.S.

application for the first time. After the B.A.S.I.S. and database

software have been installed and configured, this option installs the

access control-related reports, tables, triggers, and default data. For

more information, refer to Chapter 3: Installing B.A.S.I.S. ET Third

Edition on page 41.

Upgrade from prior release

Select this radio button if B.A.S.I.S. 2000 or B.A.S.I.S. 2002 is

installed on your computer and you wish to upgrade to B.A.S.I.S. ET

Third Edition. For more information, refer to Chapter 2: Upgrade

Procedures on page 21.

Upgrade from previous build (same

release), or install system reports

Select this radio button if you are upgrading from one build of

B.A.S.I.S. ET Third Edition to a newer build of ET Third Edition.

For more information, refer to Chapter 2: Upgrade Procedures on

page 21.

View setup log

Select this radio button to open Windows Notepad and display the

contents of the Database Setup log file, which is updated whenever

you run Database Setup.

Continue from a previously failed

database setup

If you previously ran the Database Setup program but the process

didn’t complete because you clicked the [Stop Program] button, you

can pick up where you left off by running Database Setup again with

this radio button selected.