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SQL Server Compact announcement

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    SQL Server Compact 4.0 downloads and feature information
    ErikEJ Sunday, April 3, 2011 1:11 PM
    This post on my blog should have links to all required information.

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    SQL Server Compact 3.5 Downloads

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    Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 released with Visual Studio 2008. The English release of SQL Server Compact 3.5 is available on the download center and the links are as given ...
    Sticky | 18 Replies | 121075 Views | Created by Ambrish Mishra - MSFT - Wednesday, August 1, 2007 12:31 PM | Last reply by VenkateshMunnu - Monday, November 14, 2016 5:53 AM
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    SQL Server Compact/Mobile Resources - Webcasts, Papers, Analysis ... etc

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    SELECT Happy FROM Everywhere     SQL Server Mobile is now SQL Server Compact and is unrestricted ...
    Sticky | 4 Replies | 55802 Views | Created by Laxmi Narsimha Rao Oruganti MSFT - Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:29 PM | Last reply by David In Ft. Lauderdale - Sunday, March 29, 2009 3:44 PM
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    SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2 Hotfix for 2012 (Denali)

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    Hi, is there any way to get access to that hotfix or the CU6 package?
    Proposed | 5 Replies | 201 Views | Created by Marcus Michaels - Friday, February 15, 2019 11:01 AM | Last reply by ErikEJ - Monday, February 18, 2019 9:20 AM
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    How to open sdf files in SQL server 2012?

    SQL Server
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    SQL Server Compact
    How to open sdf files in SQL server 2012?  I couldn’t figure out how to open the sdf files in SQL server ...
    Answered | 5 Replies | 23683 Views | Created by jamal Ali Numan - Sunday, July 13, 2014 5:53 PM | Last reply by ErikEJ - Wednesday, January 30, 2019 4:46 PM
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    SQL Server Compact 4. SDF can't be accessed through the designer.

    SQL Server
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    SQL Server Compact
    In VS 2017, I can not connect to my SDF in design mode. Says the SQL Server Compact 4 is incompatible. Do I need to change to a MDF and use SQL Express? Will my tableadapters and their queries be ...
    Answered | 3 Replies | 291 Views | Created by -tE - Monday, January 21, 2019 5:21 PM | Last reply by Olaf Helper - Wednesday, January 23, 2019 7:06 AM
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    System.Data.SqlServerCe.SqlCeException: The conversion is not supported. [ Type to convert from (if known) = varbinary, Type to convert to (if known) = float ]

    SQL Server
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    Hi All, Sql CE version: 4.0 (Sp1 - 4.0.8876.1). The following query fails with, ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 227 Views | Created by Roshan Jeewantha - Thursday, January 17, 2019 2:01 AM
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    DB_E_BADACCESSORHANDLE on IRowSet::GetData()

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    CreateAccessor( DBACCESSOR_ROWDATA,  4,     ...
    Answered | 6 Replies | 10123 Views | Created by koad - Friday, June 18, 2010 4:17 PM | Last reply by suporte01poly - Tuesday, January 8, 2019 2:24 AM
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    MFC ActiveX (Visual C++ 2008) with SQLCE 3.5 database connectivity (Connection, insert, update, delete record)

    SQL Server
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    SQL Server Compact
    Hi, Environment details : VS2008, Windows CE 6.0 Device, ActiveX, SQLCE 3.5 SP2 database Target: Develop ActiveX using Visual C++ which can communicate with ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 338 Views | Created by Sharad Adelkar - Saturday, December 29, 2018 7:06 AM
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    On-demand hotfix update package for SQL Server Compact 4.0 Service Pack 1

    SQL Server
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    I'm trying to download this hotfix On-demand hotfix update package for SQL Server Compact 4.0 Service Pack ...
    Answered | 3 Replies | 803 Views | Created by FG_luke - Monday, October 1, 2018 4:13 PM | Last reply by FG_luke - Friday, December 28, 2018 1:23 PM
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    "Too many sessions..." error

    SQL Server
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    I have one sqlce database that is being written to by two threads, but there is a lock, so they can never write at the same time.  The two threads share the same single sqlceConnection, which is ...
    Unanswered | 1 Replies | 784 Views | Created by danielsn - Wednesday, September 12, 2018 8:28 PM | Last reply by ErikEJ - Sunday, December 23, 2018 12:49 PM
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    What is SQL CE 3.5/4 replacement?

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    SQL Server Compact Edition was excellent for our use. The fact that just a few DLLs needed to be installed and you were connected was great. We were drawn to SQLCE because ...
    Unanswered | 3 Replies | 698 Views | Created by JeffR2 - Saturday, December 1, 2018 5:33 PM | Last reply by ErikEJ - Sunday, December 23, 2018 12:43 PM
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    Is data "lost" from a synchronized SDF after a reinitialization recoverable?

    SQL Server
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    We have a legacy application on SQLMobile 3.5.  There was a schema update over the weekend and the instruction to all subscribers was to sync before work after the update. 90% ...
    Unanswered | 4 Replies | 549 Views | Created by andyew - Monday, December 3, 2018 1:39 AM | Last reply by ErikEJ - Sunday, December 23, 2018 12:41 PM
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    Compact 3.5 Server Tools 8088 +

    SQL Server
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    SQL Server Compact
    Hoping for a miracle on this one... We have an IIS server that is being replaced that connects to a 2012 SQL Server and uses merge replication with clients running Compact ...
    Unanswered | 4 Replies | 1001 Views | Created by tvoirol - Friday, October 5, 2018 4:52 PM | Last reply by ErikEJ - Sunday, December 23, 2018 12:35 PM
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    Move an existing SQL Server Compact 3.5 DB to an encrypted version

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    SQL Server Compact
    How can I convert an existing SQL Server Compact database into an encrypted version with password request? The application is written in ...
    Answered | 6 Replies | 599 Views | Created by Chris Schog - Friday, December 14, 2018 10:58 PM | Last reply by Chris Schog - Sunday, December 23, 2018 12:09 PM
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    Where is the syntax definition for table_name in SQL Server Compact v4.0 ?

    SQL Server
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    SQL Server Compact
    I can only find such as  "Table names must comply with the rules for identifiers." "Column names must comply with the ...
    Answered | 2 Replies | 632 Views | Created by Runerback - Thursday, October 25, 2018 2:41 AM | Last reply by Olaf Helper - Thursday, October 25, 2018 5:58 AM
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    sdf file - modyfing Database Structure.

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    Hello, I've got following problem: I have Windows Mobile application that uses sdf database. Every time I change my database structure (add new table, add a ...
    Answered | 5 Replies | 8797 Views | Created by Michal1985 - Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:43 PM | Last reply by tfma - Monday, October 8, 2018 1:40 AM
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    How can I make SQL CE 3.5 work on Windows Embedded 7?

    SQL Server
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    I have an application for a Motorola Symbol Device (MK3000) that works fine with Win CE 5.0 , the app was created on Visual C# on VS2008. Now my company is upgrading the devices to the new ...
    Answered | 5 Replies | 4853 Views | Created by loboscave - Wednesday, April 2, 2014 6:33 PM | Last reply by ErikEJ - Tuesday, October 2, 2018 6:52 AM
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    SQL Server Compact Edition

    SQL Server
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    Dear All, We have noticed that during installation of SQL Server 2008 R2, below two components installed by default. Will there be any harm in database services if we uninstall them ...
    Answered | 2 Replies | 814 Views | Created by Arup.mca - Friday, September 21, 2018 9:15 AM | Last reply by Arup.mca - Monday, October 1, 2018 12:57 PM
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    Error: "SQL Server Compact made an unsupported request to the host operating system"

    SQL Server
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    Hi, I'm wrting a c# app that uses SQL Server Compact 3.5 as its database. However, I've got the error "SQL Server Compact made an unsupported request to the host operating ...
    Answered | 4 Replies | 10928 Views | Created by Dan From Mobidia - Friday, December 16, 2011 5:41 PM | Last reply by Victor J Espina S - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 1:34 AM
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    Sync Error - The argument tombstoneKey is improperly formatted.

    SQL Server
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    SQL Server Compact
    I use a SQL CE 3.5 db synchronized with a SQL 2017. The synchronization works properly, but just in one case I have some rows in a table with this problem: a row in the table is deleted, the ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 622 Views | Created by GiorgioDC - Tuesday, September 11, 2018 3:48 PM
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    OWASP scan on SQL Server Compact Edition libraries

    SQL Server
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    SQL Server Compact
    On running a dependency check on my projects library, the tool reported multiple vulnerabilities in System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll The version (4.0.8876.1) of ...
    Unanswered | 0 Replies | 824 Views | Created by SoftEngi - Tuesday, August 14, 2018 6:00 AM
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    trying to get last 3 (max) samples in SQL CE

    SQL Server
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    SQL Server Compact
    I am attempting to convert a perfectly good application that runs really sweet on my development machine (SQL 2017) to a network drive that will use privately deployed SQL CE database. Some of the ...
    Answered | 7 Replies | 1130 Views | Created by DougCoder - Thursday, July 19, 2018 6:38 PM | Last reply by DougCoder - Monday, July 23, 2018 1:28 PM
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Announcement: 1

SQL Server Compact announcement

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    SQL Server Compact 4.0 downloads and feature information
    ErikEJ Sunday, April 3, 2011 1:11 PM
    This post on my blog should have links to all required information.
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