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world, to anyone with access to SharePoint or another application connected to the SQL Server
database.
This chapter also discussed the SQL Server Express Edition. SQL Server Express is a free download
from Microsoft’s Web site. Outside minimal registration requirements, it can be used by anyone
wanting to take advantage of the SQL Server database architecture and features. Unlike MSDE,
which preceded SQL Server Express, the Express edition does not include the performance throttle
that inhibited more than five or six connections to MSDE. This means that SQL Server Express is
the ideal upgrade path for workgroup applications that have outgrown the Access Database
Engine’s capabilities.