>>MSDE is SQL Server with some limitations.
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>This is not a correct statement. MSDE is compatible with SQL-Server. It is not to be construed as SQL-Server-Lite. I know this because one of the folks at MS corrected on of my slides for a presentation I did. Like you and many others, I too was under the impression that MSDE was a flavor of SQL Server. MSDE is it's own distinct entity. That entity is compatible with SQL Server. We may be arguing semantics here. Suffice it to say that MSDE is not SQL Server...

That's totally opposite of everything I've read and been told about MSDE, including many people from MS. I don't think it's worth arguing about. In my coding I can treat it like SQL Server.