MSDE is a nobbled version of SQL Server. it is not a client, just the server side part of your client server system. The nobbling is that it performance drops sharply with more than 3 or 4 users. It also doesn't come with Enterprise Manager or other tools - it is the engine of SQL Server (so all the security etc is there). Versions tend to come with various MS development suites - I don't know if there are particular rules for when it can and can't be used, but it can certainly be packaged with an MS application.
cheers > I was looking at the Microsoft website, and I could not understand the > MSDE licensing stuff. I was hoping that someone could help me out > while we're on the subject. > > How do you get hold of MSDE? > > What do you have to buy to be able to use it and distribute it to > clients? > > I read that it cannot be used for anything that you could use Access > for. How does this get worked out? Because you can use Access for a > lot of things, it just performs badly and has no security. My intended > use is to rebuild and improve an existing Access application that I > wrote in a uni summer job. I would like to add features like the > ability to prevent users from changing the source code. Do they count? > > Or perhaps I am misunderstanding, and you simply can't use it to > create a program that mimics the functions of Access. That is, a > SamAccess(tm). > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/
