--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Jonathan Neve <jonathan@m...>
wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I know this is off-topic, so I don't want to make a long thread about
> it; rather, I just want to ask, if anyone knows where I can get a
> "desktop" version of MSSQL, or even an evaluation version. I don't need
> to use MSSQL at all, but merely develop an MSSQL-compatible plugin (for
> CopyCat), so even a time-limited eval would be fine.
>
> Does anyone know where I could find that, or, alternatively, where

would

> be the right place to ask?
>

You are looking for the MS SQL Desktop Engine:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/downloads/default.mspx

Regards
Thomas