To install HammerDB on Windows you have the option of using the self-extracting installer or zipfile. The self-extracting installer will create an uninstall executable for you. A zipfile installation can be deleted manually. In both cases the install is entirely self-contained within the installation directory.
Double click on the Setup file the installer will confirm the Verified Publisher as the TRANSACTION PROCESSING PERFORMANCE COUNCIL. Click Yes to start the installation.
Click continue to begin the installation.
Read and Accept the GPL License Agreement.
Choose the installation directory.
Press Next to begin the install.
The installer will extract the files into the chosen directory.
Complete the Install by viewing the Readme File and running HammerDB. If both options are chosen HammerDB will run after the Readme is closed.
HammerDB will start ready for you to use. The default order of the databases in the treeview is in the order that they were added to HammerDB, however this is user configurable and from v4.5 settings will persist across restarts of HammerDB. To change the default order and understand how settings are persisted see section 9 XML Configuration further in this Chapter.
If it is the first time that HammerDB has run it will create a new Jobs repository database called hammer.DB, in the configured location in the config/generic.xml file which by default is set to TMP <commandline><sqlite_db>TMP</sqlite_db></commandline> to find a suitable temp location. Subsequent use will use the same file for storing job related data. This file can moved if another location is preferred or if deleted a new one will be recreated.
As an alternative to the self-extracting installer you can download and extract the zipfile into a directory of your choice.
After installation double-click on the "Windows Batch File" hammerdb to start hammerdb.
For a zipfile installation, delete the hammerDB directory. For an installer based installation double-click on uninstall and follow the on-screen prompts.
Figure 1.11. Uninstall
In addition to the HammerDB software deletion there is also a number of SQLite database files by default stored in the temporary area. These can also be safely removed if preferred.
