I'm not sure MSDE is meant to replace Jet. Jet is still fine as a small desktop database. MSDE is probably one of the best kept secrets M$ has. It's a very capable database engine a bit nobbled so M$ can continue to collect revenue from full SQL Server licenses. It is supposed to be the same code base as SQL Server and is an ideal development environment if you are targetting SQL Server.
John Bonnett -----Original Message----- From: Iikka Meriläinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 11 October 2003 5:30 PM To: Wang Feng Cc: Director General: NEFACOMP; MySQL Generic mailing list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: what's the database behind m$ access? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Wang Feng wrote: > That works, Emery. Thanks a lot. > > > Dummy me, I was wrong. Seems that Access is just a tool rather than a > Database, then what's the database behind M$ Access? It's the Microsoft Jet engine - a small, relatively restricted database engine. At some time Microsoft's intention was to replace the Jet engine with MSDE (SQL Server Desktop Edition) but I don't know if there's been any progress on that front. Cheers, Iikka ======================================== Iikka Meriläinen Vaala, Finland E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/h7hvCVGYZ+r4ZncRArjGAJ0VULvmO1hbvNsgZ2chqI34Fo7vmwCfaked RSJuWUiyYEkzna3HS+Jul4o= =KKyj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
