Are you talkinig about letting SEPM create its own internal database or an SQL database?  Also, how many clients are you looking to manage?  If its under 5,000, the integrated database will probably do just fine.

You might check out service1.symantec.com/support/ent-security.nsf/854fa02b4f5013678825731a007d06af/8ed22363812c4c8388257456004df257

Thanks for the link had not seet that one yet!

I am going to use SQL. I am talking about whether to create my own custom SQL DB or let let the SEPM install wizard create this for me, which is preferred method? Create the DB manually and specify it in the Wizard ?? Clients will be under 5000 but we are going with SQL anyway.

Thanks

Is the recommended method to create a Custom SQL DB [1] or let the SEPM installation Wizard create the DB for you?  My SQL 2005 server is remote from the SEPM Console.    The prefered option is let the SEPM install wizard create this for you unless you have some database which has a similar name or instance.

In case its a 64 bit machine please follow this link      http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security....

Thanks I went with the wizard and the sql DB created looks fine. My query was really just to ascertain if the wizard would do the same steps as the custom setup instructions.