>>>Switch to MSDE, then. Is a SQL server engine and the limit is 2 Gb for a database. The 'MOM-POP' customers will not reach such amount of data.
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>>>Hope this helps
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>>Isn't that a little simplistic, Grigore???
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>>I mean (and I've been told this a few times) MSDE *IS* SQL Server. That being the case, who's going to specify and take care of the logging and all of the other care and feeding that comes with SQL Server (remember, MDSE *IS* Sql Server).
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>>JimN
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>Jim;
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>Perhaps Grigore was at the SQL Server 7.0 Kickoff as were many of us when Steve Balmer stated "SQL Server 7.0 does not require an administrator"! Hmmm, that is not my experience!!!

It requires a janitor, then. Still, my impression is that you can't leave it unattended for too long; it doesn't seem to have been written to operate that way.