>>>Hi,
>>>I am being asked to develop an application to run on a Windows tablet running Windows 8 or Windows 10 Professional.
>>>I guess I can install SQL Express, but would like to use the version with the smallest footprint. Can anyone tell me what that would be? SQL Server Compact? LocalDB? Something else?
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>>Even now I'm doing SQL server apps 95% of the time, is it a consideration to use dbfs?
>>If the app is not running through a network, DBFs certainly have the smallest footprint
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>>Walter,
>No, I don't want to consider dbfs. I can get SQL server to run on the tablet. Just looking for the version with the smallest footprint

How about to connect to SQL Server though Internet?
That way you don't have to install in on the Tablet.