pubs database not installing for newbie

[diwin]

I am new to this stuff. Where am I going wrong?

I successfully installed MSDE for use with VS.net 2003 using...

Setup.exe /qb+ INSTANCENAME=VSDOTNET DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=1 SAPWD=mycurrentadminpw

However, I cannot install the pubs database. When I use the following command, there is a delay of about 20 seconds and the c:\ prompt displays. There is no other message. When I check the MSSQL$VSDOTNET directory, pubs is not there.

OSQL.EXE -E -S mycurrentcomputername\VSDOTNET -i "C:\SQL Server 2000 Sample Databases\instpubs.sql" -o C:\instpubs.out

Daniel Dillon
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[diwin]

Solution:

When I click on My Computer and select the "Computer Name" tab, I can read the computer's name. This makes sense. The last character in the name happens to be a period, "." The period is, however, not a character in the name. So why is it there??????? I only spotted it when I became suspicious of the period and clicked on the Change button to rename the computer. The name displayed there without the period.

That's it. PERIOD!

Daniel Dillon
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