Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/19/07 23:23

Vincent (animedreamer@verizon.net) writes:
> My boss claims that there is a free SQL server runtime. Is this
> true? I was only aware of MSDE. But I believe the connections are
> capped at 5 in MSDE. If there is a free SQL server runtime, are there
> any limitations to using it (performance, connection count)? Thanks.

The successor for MSDE in SQL 2005 is SQL Express. It does not have a
throttler like MSDE, but it does have a limit on the database size,
4 GB if memory serves.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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