>>I still don't understand why everyone is recommending specific DBMSs to you or why you are listening to them, given that you have >>a commercial application with a variety of clients. You could easily wind up limiting your market by taking yourself out of the >>running with companies who are committed to a different DBMS. The beauty of it is that .NET makes it pretty easy to be data->>agnostic using a data factory pattern as mentioned in my earlier message.


I am not limiting my choices and I am indeed looking to produce a database agnostic application. However I do need to know which databases are around and what they offer and learn more about SQL databases.


Gary.