|  | Posted by Neil on 10/25/07 04:45 
Thanks for the info. That's good to know.
 "Greg D. Moore (Strider)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@greenms.com> wrote in message
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 > "Neil" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
 > news:G0hTi.54$nN3.12@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net...
 >>>>> (BTW, you may want to look into upgrading the DB to use something like
 >>>>> SQL Express edition.  More modern, better supported and may be a bit
 >>>>> faster, especially on a Windows 2003 box.)
 >>>>
 >>>> SQL Express? I thought SQL Express was the new version of SQL
 >>>> Desktop/MSDE. Maybe I'm wrong.
 >>>
 >>> It is.  For many smaller applications, it's a great choice.  For a 1 gig
 >>> database, I'd certainly consider it.
 >>>
 >>
 >> Isn't there a limitation on the number of users that can access the
 >> database? I thought that it was something like 10 users or something.
 >>
 >
 > No, and there never has been.  That's a misunderstanding of the old query
 > governer built into MSDE (whcih permitted only 5 or 6 (I've seen both
 > numbers)) of queries to run at the same time before things were slowed
 > down on purpose).
 >
 > SQL Server Express 2005 does not have that limit.  Rather it is limited in
 > DB size (2GB), CPU (1) and memory (I believe 1GB).  But within those
 > parameters it operates at full-speed and works very well.
 >
 >
 >>
 >
 >
 >
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 >
 >
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