After 14 years, its days are finally numbered. The first attempt to replace Jet is the Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE). As a scaled-down version of SQL Server 2000, it was quite effective.

• SQL Check, which scans an individual computer to see whether an instance of SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 is vulnerable to the Slammer worm. On computers running Windows NT ...

SQL Server Express Edition, a replacement SKU for MSDE or Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine, will be a free download and bundled with the full toolset and database. The target market for Express ...

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition will replace Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine as the software maker's lightweight database offering of choice.

Furthermore, MDSE (Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine) 1.0 and 2000, free bare-bones versions of the database engine, also wont work with Vista.

The three new tools are these: • SQL Server 2000 SQL Scan Tool, which scans a network to identify instances of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 that may be vulnerable to ...