>Erik,
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>>>> file-server oriented subset of SQL Server;
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>>>Did I read this correctly? MSDE will run on a file server?
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>>What's a file server?
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>A file server, is a server that maintains files (sounds obvious doesn't it). The windows Windows NT (W2K) Server famaly, is an application server, but also a file server. A Novell server is an example of a pure fileserver. It does nothing (or almost nothing) more than storing files.
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Thanks, but it was sort of a rhetorical question. I was pointing out that just because someone might call their NT/2K server box a file server, doesn't make it incapable of running a database server.