> Hi Alan,
>
> No... but that is only anecdotal evidence... haven't done any serious
> performance testing yet. Do you mean in query performance or program
> loading type issues? We certainly don't notice it in program loading...
> having said that, I've never been completely clear on how Windows loads
> dlls, and whether everything is loaded all at once etc.

As I understand it he server part of the embedded server is loaded
dynamically - so the client may load but the server part will not load until
a local connection is first requested.

>
> Our application has database access just about everywhere, but select
> result sets are generally very small... at least for 99% of users, so
> given the deployment flexibility, we'd probably just take a performance
> hit if it exists, or try to rework some SQL.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Lee
>
> Alan McDonald wrote: