I'm feeling dazed and confused, here.

I just downloaded the latest available 4.3 source. I created a new (local) Website "DNN43", and a new database inside SQL Server 2003 "DotNetNuke43". Used the old DNNUser account, but changed the default database to DotNetNuke43. Renamed release.config to web.config, and updated the connection string (in two places). Everything else stayed the same.

I launched DNN43 using the install option, and everything appeared to install just dandy. Logged in as host and admin OK, so started migrating database objects (tables and sprocs) for a custom module I'm going to convert from 3.2 to 4.3, using SQL Query Analyzer. Checked the database  - the new tables are there, OK, but there don't appear to be any core DNN tables laying about anywhere.

Detached the old 3.2 database I was using. I can still log in, even add a new user

Leads me to think that either a) the core tables have been hidden using some magic I don't know about; b) they've ended up someplace weird; or c) in SQL Express? or something.

Any help (or references to documentation) would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance

Rick

Pretty vanilla - the connection string is

      connectionString="Server=(local);Database=DotNetNuke43;uid=DNNUser;pwd=omitted;"

More info: I commented out (<!-- -->) the SQL Server 2005 Express connection string immediately above the SQL Server string, and cannot connect; uncommented, and I can. I'm starting to suspect that I installed into SQL Express. I'm going to restart the install process with the SQL Express connection commented out from the beginning.

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Turns out that the SQL 2005 connection stuff is commented out (found this suggestion eventually in another thread) and you need to uncomment it and 86 the SQL Express stuff. The comment tags enclose a little more than I was looking for.

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