Hi David..

Again, it may be semantics. MS is very quick to correct folks when they make the misstep of calling MSDE a limited form of SQL. I don't know what that reason is. I think it is best to be as correct as possible when making alleged statements of fact.

Thanks..



>John,
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>Sorry, I had a post ready with a couple of citations from MS site, to back up your contention that MSDE is not SQL Server, but I previewed the message and lost it when I hit the back button. Arggh.
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>Anyway, the fairly consistent line from the product's introduction has been "MSDE is a data engine that is compatible with SQL Server...". I saw a couple of references that said something like: "MSDE includes technology from SQL Server", but nowhere was there ever a statement that MSDE is a limited version of SQL Server.