We have an autosys server which has sqlcmd.exe and bcp.exe installed on it so we can run SQL queries through our console apps. On the server we have SQL 2016 and two other components: SQL Server 2008 Setup Support Files and SQL Server 2014 Management Objects. Since 2008 is reaching end of life, we are being required to remove it from our server. When we try to do this we are getting a message that indicates that SQL Sever 2016 Management Studio depends on this product and might not function properly if we remove it. When we did this in the DEV environment we ended up losing sqlcmd.exe and bcp.exe, but I believe this happened when we removed the 2014 component. So my question is simple: can we remove SQL Server 2008 Setup Support Files from the server and not have to worry about sqlcmd.exe and bcp.exe being removed as well?
Thanks for any information you can provide on this.
Mark Stone