> > > ....the SQL Server 2005 Express download provides software that
> is suitable for application embedding or lightweight application > development. > I never developed more then some queries on SQL Server Express or its different names. But I had to work with some applications which used the various incarnations of SQL Server Express. And EVERYTIME it was a additionally installed application on the system. The only "embedding" that I could recognise was the Installer being triggered from the applications installer. MY idea of an embedded database would be "I link <something> with my software, so that there is only ONE application". Is my understaning of "embedded" wrong or oldschool? Harald -- GHUM Harald Massa persuadere et programmare Harald Armin Massa Spielberger Straße 49 70435 Stuttgart 0173/9409607 fx 01212-5-13695179 - EuroPython 2008 will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania - Stay tuned!