Micro Soft Data Engine

MSDE, the old name for SqlServerDesktopEngine.

See March 2004 article at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmsde2kwrk/html/msde2000webapp.asp.

The above link has limited shelf life left, as SqlExpress will be replacing MSDE in 2005