Published
Friday, June 20, 2008 5:33 AM
by
martin
I've been using SQL Server Compact Edition v3.5 for a little while now, and while the database engine has performed faultlessly so far, the same cannot be said of the management tool that's built into VS2008. Perhaps that has improved with SP1 of VS2008, I haven't checked yet.
Today, I downloaded the release candidate of SQL Server 2008, just to get the management tools and see if I can connect to my SQLCE3.5 database from there. I can, and it seems to work well. I must say that I haven't spent long working with it yet, but it's great to have access to some of the features I'm familiar with from "normal" SQL Server, such as a graphical view of the execution plan.
Of course, it's still a release candidate. My early optimism might soon wear off :-)