'' regarding - MicroSoftDataEngine and SqlServerDesktopEngine''

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MSDE is a good engine & quality Client / Management tools are coming online; or write your own.

* The distribution license is free (Good on you Bill)
** For MSDE stuff check out:
*** http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/distsql/distsql_84xl.asp
*** http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/default.asp
*** http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=&freetext=msde&DisplayLang=en
* Best regards - Gary
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''MSDE is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft''
* It is a scaled-down version of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or 2000 which is free for non-commercial use as well as certain limited commercial use
* TimeContext: 
** It was introduced at Microsoft TechEd in May 1999, and was included as part of Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition. 
** Its successor, SQL Server Express was released in November 2005.
** Vendor support of MSDE ended on April 8, 2008
*** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDE