Hi and welcome to the SQL Mobile blog!

 

The SQL Mobile team wants to make this blog a place where we can provide all kinds of information about SQL Mobile and get your feedback. A quick introduction: my name is Sitaram Raju and I am the Group Manager for SQL Mobile group.

 

The big recent news is that SQL Mobile will be available on desktop. Paul Flessner announced it on April 6th, 2006 and SQL Mobile will be re-branded as SQL Server Everywhere Edition or SSEv for short. You can find more information about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/stevelasker/archive/2006/04/10/SqlEverywhereInfo.aspx.

 

One big customer feature request has been to make SQL Mobile available on Windows CE. Currently if you download the SQL Mobile Device SDK at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5BD8ABAA-5813-4DB3-B23A-24551DE2ECC1&displaylang=en you will get cabs for all supported processors of Windows CE 5.0 and a cab for just the ARM processor for Windows CE 4.2.Customers have requested:

1.      To make available SQL Mobile for all supported processors of Windows CE 4.2. The full processor list is ARMv4, ARMv4i, MIPSII, MIPSII FP, MIPSIV, MIPSIV FP, SH4 and x86.

2.      To make SQL Mobile for Windows CE 4.2 available as Platform Builder component so that a customized Windows CE 4.2 image with SQL Mobile can be created.

3.      To make SQL Mobile for Windows CE 5.0 available as Platform Builder component so that a customized Windows CE 5.0 image can be created.

 

The first two features will be available shortly after .NET CF 2.0 SP1 is released. The link to .NET CF 2.0 SP1 Beta is at http://blogs.msdn.com/netcfteam/archive/2006/04/21/580901.aspx. The third feature will be available with the June update of Platform Builder.

 

This is just the first post. The various members of SQL Mobile team will be posting to this blog and we look forward to your comments and responses.

 

Thanks,

Sitaram Raju