Good Things in Small Packages: Microsoft Launches SQL Server 2000 for Windows CE

By Bill Graziano on 28 November 2000 | Tags: SQL for CE

When people think of SQL Server 2000—Microsoft's powerful database and data analysis program—they may imagine the product running on a large, static piece of hardware permanently anchored in a climate-controlled room.

If you asked them how likely it would be that a portable, handheld device could incorporate SQL Server's robust computing capabilities, some might see it as the equivalent of jamming a 2-ton elephant into a phone booth.

But they'd be mistaken.