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Mobile Database Review: Microsoft Databases for Windows CE

By Bryan Morgan
Apr 5, 2002

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In the fourth and final segment of his review of popular mobile database offerings, Bryan Morgan takes a look at two popular database offerings for Windows CE from Microsoft: Pocket Access 2002 and SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition (commonly referred to as SQL Server CE).

Introduction

In the fourth and final segment of our review of popular mobile database offerings, we'll take a look at two popular database offerings for Windows CE from Microsoft: Pocket Access 2002 and SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition (commonly referred to as SQL Server CE). Both of these products are relational databases that can be programmatically accessed from a number of popular Windows CE development tools, thanks to Microsoft's ADOCE database access API. The two products have many things in common, but each is clearly designed to meet a specific need. Pocket Access is ideal for smaller database applications that need to operate on a small number of tables. SQL Server CE supports replication with an enterprise SQL Server data store as well as advanced database capabilities.

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