>Right now we're considering doing some replication. The MSDE documentation says that you can replicate between MSDE servers. I'm seeing other documentation on MSDN that says you must have a SQL Server for replication to work.
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>We will be rolling out 3,000+ MSDE servers. Obviously, we aren't anxious to buy that many per-seat licenses. I'm going to purchase a book this evening that may have the answer in it.
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>What I'm hoping is that we can replicate our frontline MSDE boxes (3,000) to our regional offices (<100). To replicate up from there, I'm sure we'll need a SQL Server (more than 2 gig of data). Purchasing 100 licenses will be much easier than 3,000+.
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Does it have to be a replication solution? You can also use persisted recordsets and make batch updates to the central server.