Those errors are unrelated to the SQL configuration. Did you see anything regarding connecting to your SQL database?
nothing, and when i started the service, Windows just gave me the error popup
in my early threat.
you dont need to pre-populate any table to your PSU database?
No. It should just create and populate all the tables during startup.
what’s the advantage if we use SQL over the file db?
more portable?
Possible better performance, possible better persistence, can allow for high availability setups.
But most important: more options.
Took a little while to get back to this but these did the trick for me. Not sure what I used prior but going from 0 with these as reference made it chooch as expected!