A zero-configuration version for developers that runs in user mode, making it easy to bundle with Visual Studio projects. Key Technical Specifications and Limitations

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The biggest dealbreaker. Once your data hits ~9.5GB, you must migrate to Standard or another RDBMS.

Today, SQL 2014 Express lives in a strange purgatory. Its mainstream support is dead; its extended support has faded. It exists now as "zombie infrastructure." It powers the point-of-sale systems in old retail stores. It runs the backend of that inventory management software at the local mechanic’s shop that hasn't updated Windows in a decade. It is the bedrock of forgotten corners of the internet, humming along on dusty servers, forgotten until it crashes.