Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Alarms and Events Quick Start - Manual (Page 126)

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2. In the Alarm and Event Historian Database Properties dialog box, configure
properties for the new database definition.
In this example, we used FTAE_History for the definition name and database
name, FTAE_Historian for the database user name, as well as password for the
password. Select the version of SQL Server you are using. For details, click Help
on the dialog box.
3. Click the Advanced tab. The system will attempt to create the database, the user
account, and the tables that are necessary to store the alarm and event information.
To improve efficiency when
writing to the database,
information is sent to a cache
file located on the computer
hosting the alarm server
before writing to the database.