Deployment Considerations

This section describes two primary considerations for deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (SQL Server Compact Edition) applications:

Besides these topics, if you are upgrading an existing SQL Server database, see Upgrading SQL Server Mobile and SQL Server CE.

Important

SQL Server Compact Edition is not currently optimized to serve as a database for Web sites. By default, connections from ASP.NET-connected applications are blocked in SQL Server Compact Edition. SQL Server Compact Edition is optimized for use as an embedded database within applications. Using SQL Server Compact Edition as a database for Web sites requires support for multiple users and concurrent data changes. This can cause performance problems. Therefore, these scenarios are not supported. Other editions of SQL Server 2005, including SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, are optimized to serve as a database for Web sites. SQL Server Compact Edition can be used with ASP.NET in application scenarios where ASP.NET is used to create SQL Server Compact Edition databases for synchronization. Use the following code to change the default behavior of SQL Server Compact Edition to work within ASP.NET. AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData("SQLServerCompactEditionUnderWebHosting", true