> p.s. as a side note, the whole point of this exercise is to build a > *really* small footprint DB for an embedded system for which space is > at a premium, and sqlite came highly recommended.
If you look on SourceForge, there is a project called adodotnetsqlite, http://sourceforge.net/projects/adodotnetsqlite/, and the programmers there have mentioned a version of SQLite compiled for handheld platforms. I know that they use a version of that for the .NET provider they are writing.