welcome back to war! without Snowden internal tread, imagine we want a visual studio mdf file, to nice temporary be installed just by a user (no permissions as adm.) opening any brower...(here...the any browser, might make a difference) , then I have here some news for u guys...first question...How to access mdf file without SQL server..? answer is no...another question...how to deploy a mdf file...oh yes...that's possible (check for OS) and third question ...how to manage permissions for mdf file....no way if not connected to SQL Server who is the one who manage permissions...but i want you to read this instead : you need a migration script..right? whatever you are or not making a request to the SQL Server, or bypassing it by creating your own database ...confusing..I'll get there!

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Copy database without sysadmin permission

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5043405/copy-database-without-sysadmin-permission

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"What is this mythical zero downtime deployment? You can say that your application is deployed that way if you can successfully introduce a new version of your application to production without making the user see that the application went down in the meantime.

https://spring.io/blog/2016/05/31/zero-downtime-deployment-with-a-database