And for the most part, it looks like MSDE and Personal Edition are the same except the Desktop Edition comes with the Tools (EM, QA, Profiler). Desktop Engine is just the database.
So I don't stand corrected :-) -----Original Message----- From: Costas Piliotis Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 12:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SQL Server 2000 desktop version. Ahhh... Ooops... I stand corrected. There's a first for everything =) Here's Microsoft's link to a comparison: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/architec/8_ ar_sa2_9gz4.asp -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:01 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SQL Server 2000 desktop version. > It's called msde. It comes with Office 2000/XP. Not Really a desktop > edition but rather a scaled down implementation of SQL Server. > > As far as I know, if you have an Office 2000/XP licence, you have a > MSDE licence as well. MSDE isn't the same as SQL Server Desktop Edition. With SQL Server, you could install the Desktop Edition on a Windows 98 machine, for example, and you'd get the core SQL Server engine (with some pretty severe size and functionality limitations) and the Enterprise Manager tools. MSDE, on the other hand, is simply the SQL Server engine (with its own, different, set of limitations), with no Enterprise Manager tools. If you develop applications with Visual Studio, you can redistribute MSDE with those applications, as an alternative to using Access. You can't redistribute SQL Server Desktop Edition. > Do you need a license to install the desktop version of SQL Server > 2000? As for needing a license to install SQL Server Desktop Edition, I'm sure you need one, but I don't know how much it is. You'd also need licenses for connections, I suspect, if you were to actually have any connections to it. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ voice: (202) 797-5496 fax: (202) 797-5444 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
