>>Again - even easier with SQLIte: no need for Dotnet if you don't insist on C# ;-)
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>But the thread is specificially about which DB to use in a *small .NET application* and in that light CE deserves serious consideration.
>I've used the same entity model to go against the same database on CE, SQL Express and SQL2008. Nothing to change except to connection string. That gives customers a lot of flexibility.
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Perhaps the smiley was not clear enough, so I embolded it a bit ;-)