Inc. All rights reserved. A database engine is often just a database management system without its graphical management tools.
Engines typically serve two main purposes.
The first is to store information, and the second is to process requests for stored information. Requests to retrieve or alter stored data are often called database queries. A 'client-server' database management system. Because of this, client-server databases handle many more concurrent users and vastly greater amounts of data. This MSDE database is designed to quickly upgrade to the full SQL Server to meet the most demanding database application requirements for the enterprise, including operational and decision support systems implemented today and in the future.