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title: "MSDE - The missing piece"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/29/msde-the-missing-piece.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/29/msde-the-missing-piece.html"
published: "2003-08-29T21:14:00"
updated: "2003-08-29T21:14:00"
tags: ["Cool Articles"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Thanks to Mike Gunderloy for pointing out this great article on MSDE. It should have been entitled : Everything you wanted to ask about MSDE"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# MSDE - The missing piece

By Roy Osherove August 29, 2003 In [Cool Articles](https://osherove.com/blog/category/cool-articles)

**Historical article** · Originally published August 29, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Thanks to [Mike Gunderloy](http://www.larkware.com/) for pointing out this great article on MSDE. It should have been entitled :

[Everything you wanted to ask about MSDE](http://www.betav.com/Files/Content/Whitepapers/msde_files/msde.htm)

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