This is my situation: I want to make a small application in C# using SQL server, but I don’t want it to be a server based application…
I simply want a database that I can copy and paste into my application folder and reference it there, then use the application on any other PC that wont have SQL Server installed…
You can’t do that with SQL Server database. You can use
Microsoft Access database orSQLite for this purpose or you can use SQL Server CE.See: How to: Deploy a SQL Server Compact 4.0 Database with an Application