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After shipping the first release candidate, or RC1, of SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition in mid-November, Microsoft quietly began shipping RC1 of the product's documentation, which has been updated to ...

Sometimes, life really is like a box of chocolates. The same can also be said for software upgrades. Take, for instance, Visual Studio 2008. After all its various CTPs and RTMs, I feel like I've been ...

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Microsoft has long offered a compact alternative to the mainstream editions of SQL Server, but the SQL Server Compact Edition appears to be losing steam. It's not particularly compact and has lost ...