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SQL Server Compact 3.5 for Devices Windows Installer contains the CAB files and DLL’s for installation on the Windows Mobile platform. When compared to its previous release, SQL Server Compact 3.5 includes a host of new features including the following:

• Side-by-side installation together with SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (version 3.1)
  
• Support for newer and more secure encryption algorithms
  
• Additional timestamp (rowversion) data type


• Enhanced support for Transact-SQL statements including:
  
  • Nested query in FROM clause
    
  • CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY
    
  • CAST and DECIMAL
    
  • SET IDENTITY INSERT
    
  • TOP

For more information please see the SQL Server Compact 3.5 Books Online

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Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2016.

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• For the Windows Desktop platform, please see the SQL Server Compact 3.5 for Windows Desktop download page

• 48 MB of available hard disk space. (An additional 48 MB of space must be also available for temporary setup files.)


• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later


• Active Sync 4.0 or later


• Visual Studio 2008

• Any device that runs Microsoft Windows CE 4.2, Windows CE 5.0, Windows CE 6.0, Windows Mobile 2003 Software for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5.0, or Windows Mobile 6.0


• 2–3 MB of available storage space on the Windows Mobile Device, depending on processor type, operating system version, and components installed.

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