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Asked: 2026-05-31T20:26:14+00:00

I have a questions regarding databases for ASP.Net 4.0 MVC3 (or 4 Beta). I’m

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I have a questions regarding databases for ASP.Net 4.0 MVC3 (or 4 Beta).
I’m fairly new to the ASP.net MVC environment, and usage of databases in general.

  1. It’s stated that the SQL Server Compact is a local database storage. What does this exactly mean? If I were to use this for my web app, would users be able to “access” this database (e.g. register, login), or would I be the only one with access since the file (.sdf) is “local” and is only in my hard disk?

  2. Let’s say I’m coding a library management system which would require storage of alot of stuff in the DB. Would it be better to just use the SQL Server Compact that comes with Visual Studio or should I switch to MySQL or some other databases?

I’m asking because I wanna clear everything up before I step into the world of ASP.Net (and since I’ll be dealing with DBs alot in future).

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    1. The “local” is relative to where the application code runs, not where the user is. If you’re using ASP.NET MVC, the application code runs on the server, to the database has to be on the same server. All users using the web application can use it though since the access is done by the application.

    2. I’d use SQL Server Express for that, version 2008 R2 does have a limit of 10GB per database (not including FILESTREAM data AFAIR) but that is already a lot of data. It’s free but uses the same engine as the full SQL Server products, but it has some limitations on database size (as mentioned) and resource usage (parallel processing and memory), for many application it is still a perfect solution though.

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