>This is for a little utility app I'm writing that needs a small, light weight data engine that needs to be easily distributed to just a few users.

Good luck <s>...

I'd look into VistaDb for that...
Much easier to deal with.

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>
>>Curious - is this for production or for checking SqlE out?
>>
>>I've played a bit with SqlE and I've been very underwhelmed by its functionality and especially its tools to admnister it which is a pain in the butt.
>>
>>There's a third party company I ran into a while back that has some proper tools to migrate data into it called DataPort Wizard or something like that which has been handy but it really blows me away that Microsoft didn't bother to build tools like with SqlE distribution.
>>
>>+++ Rick ---
>>
>>>Can anybody give me any pointers on getting SQL Everywhere working with MM.NET?
>>>
>>>I get an error when running the Business Layer Generator. When I press the "Get Data" button I get a .Net SQLClient Data Provider exception that says:
>>>
>>>

>>>An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When
>>>connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that
>>>under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.
>>>(provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error:26 - Error Locating Server/Instance
>>>Specified)
>>>