I am developing a program that will need to be deployed across multiple computers. It will not need to be networked or anything, just a stand alone program that several people will use.

I usually only write software for my own use, and never need to take into account other user's machines.

My question is: If I use an sql database (preferred) for my software to store info, how will I "email" the program and the database to the other users?

To be more clear: I have sql server running on my machine. Will they need to install it on theirs? They will be novice users and incapable of doing that, and they will be all over the country so troubleshooting will be not fun.

Would it be better to use an access database? I am using a database on "localhost" right now. Should I have it set up differently? Maybe somehow off the server and simply right in the directory?


Thanks for the help, Victor.