Client Side Tools

regarding - MicroSoftDataEngine and SqlServerDesktopEngine

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MSDE is a good engine & quality Client / Management tools are coming online; or write your own.

• The distribution license is free (Good on you Bill)
  • For MSDE stuff check out:
    • http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/distsql/distsql_84xl.asp
    • http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/default.asp
    • http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=&freetext=msde&DisplayLang=en
• Best regards - Gary

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--- A short blurb

MSDE is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft

• It is a scaled-down version of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or 2000 which is free for non-commercial use as well as certain limited commercial use
• TimeContext:
  • It was introduced at Microsoft TechEd in May 1999, and was included as part of Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition.
  • Its successor, SQL Server Express was released in November 2005.
  • Vendor support of MSDE ended on April 8, 2008
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDE