April 06, 2006 Coming From Microsoft: SQL Server Everywhere By Barbara Darrow Courtesy of CRN Microsoft is adding yet another member to its SQL Server franchise. Well, more accurately, it is transitioning its current SQL Server Mobile edition to a new SQL Server Everywhere Edition. The current SQL Server 2005 Express edition continues on. SQL Server Everywhere is "SQL Server Mobile plus more," said a spokeswoman. Where the current mobile SQL Server requires Windows CE 5.0, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Windows Mobile 2003 Software for Pocket PC, its successor will run as well on 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows, including the upcoming Vista, now due widely early next year. The new software promises a "compact but rich subset" of SQL Server capabilities for use on the desktop or devices, according to Paul Flessner, senior vice president of data and storage platforms at Microsoft. Flessner disclosed the news in an executive letter on the company's Web site. A preview of the offering is due this summer, and final shipment is slated by year's end. Lightweight, embeddable databases are hardly new. Sybase blazed the trail in this area with its SQL Anywhere product, and IBM embeds the Cloudscape Java database in many of its offerings and has an Express edition for embedding. Oracle also offers a lightweight Express edition. At a Thursday event in San Francisco, Microsoft said to think of this as a progression. SQL Server Express once known as MSDE is the lightest server-side database option from the company. Microsoft already offers Workgroup, Standard, Enterprise and other editions of the current SQL Server 2005. Flessner is expected to talk up the Everywhere Edition and Microsoft's "Your Data, Any Place, Any Time" vision later Thursday in San Francisco. In terms of near-term deliverables, the database mirroring feature that was held back from the general SQL Server 2005 launch last fall will make it into SP1, due out at the end of the month. Flessner pledged that Microsoft will continue to work on other "Always On" high-availability perks for the database. Management Studio for SQL Server 2005 Express also will make it into SP1, a company spokeswoman said. This story was updated Thursday afternoon with more information on the SQL Server Everywhere Edition. E-mail This Story Print This Story Reprint This Story Get the latest Developer news, product info, and trends every week.			IBM Says New DB2 Will Require Less Storage Oracle Readies Database Vault, Secure Backup VMware: Next Gen Virtual Platform Beats Microsoft's Carmine MySQL To Outline Plug-in Plans, Database Upgrade SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 Brings SAP Hooks, Text Search MySQL Fills InnoDB Void With SolidDB     Developer Pipeline's Main RSS Feed     Developer Pipeline's Blog RSS Feed VIEW ALL BRIEFING CENTERS Editorial and vendor perspectives Special Report: Are Computers Destroying The Earth? With Earth Day just around the corner, two reporters cross swords over the question of whether computers and technology are helping or hurting the environment. See what they have to say, then vote on who's got it right. Embedded Experts: Fix Code Bugs Or Cost Lives Apple's Boot Camp: Macs Do Windows Microsoft Platforms Chief Talks Co-opetition With Open Source Crash Course: Get a Handle on Web Services Specs and Standards How do recent stories highlighting the ability of Apple's new Intel-based Macs to run Windows as well as Mac OS X affect your view of Macs as development platforms? Macs that can run Windows and OS X? Gimme!     39% Yawn. No thanks.     22% It all comes down to price point. Count me as maybe.     17% Ha. If it doesn't run zOS or Solaris, forget it...     12% Apple? Never! TRS-80 RULEZ!     10% E-fficiency: Web App IDEs Want to give your e-business a competitive edge? Turbo-charge your development projects with one of these Web application development IDEs. Web Site Development Made Easy A "Class" Act: Software IDEs