Setting up the Deployer and the oData Web Service - Part 1 Creating the Content Delivery database

14 Feb 2011

This tutorial explains how to configure a Tridion Content Delivery instance with the oData Web Service.

Summary

This tutorial explains how to configure a Tridion Content Delivery instance with the oData Web Service.

It is meant as a guide, and it may be applicable only to the "GA" release of SDL Tridion 2011.

This tutorial builds upon the tutorial titled " Creating a Tridion 2011 Development VM ", you must complete that tutorial before proceeding to this one.

In this tutorial we will use:

This document explains how to configure a Tridion Content Delivery instance with the oData Web Service.

It is meant as a guide, and it may be applicable only to the "GA" release of SDL Tridion 2011.

This tutorial builds upon the tutorial titled " Creating a Tridion 2011 Development VM ".

In this tutorial we will use:

Using the Tridion Database Manager, create a new Content Delivery database.

Launch the Tridion Database Manager ([Tridion_Install]\Database\DatabaseManager.exe) and choose to create a New Database from the menu

Select "Content Delivery" from the options

Select database type and name (you can use the defaults if installing locally)

Enter the SA password

Enter the database name, username, and password to use

Select the Log File location

Verify that the script completes successfully. Click File -> Exit to exit the database manager.

You have now created a Content Delivery database.

Proceed to the next step in this tutorial: Configuring an Application Server