Attached Link: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/index.html

JHoagland, you might also look at SQLight. It's tiny, only a couple of hundred KB, supports most SQL92 syntax, transactions and triggers etc. There is an ODBC driver for it available at: http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/. I played with it this afternoon and had no trouble accessing it using the OLEDB for ODBC provider in VB and doing inserts, adding an index, deleting, finds, etc. If you're using C, you can access it directly. Regarding MDAC, it might be better to just include it in a MSI installer and install if needed. The problem with leaving it to the user is that they have to find it on the MS site and then decide which of the many variants to get, etc. The Jet provided isn't even included after 2.5 Just my opinion. As for XML, I understand your caution though given the comments about Poser 5, I'd be inclined to believe the problems are with Poser rather than MSXML :-)

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