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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Accessing Access database files
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 22:34:28 +0000 (UTC)
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 The general MS file size limitation is 16 TB for older Windows and 256
> TB for newer Windows.
> 
> (well it was 2/4 GB if we go back to Win9x in the 1990's)
>
Yep - FAT32 limitation.
 
> But yes - SQLServer CE is limited to 4 GB.
> 
> I don't think it is that bad. If you need more space, then you should
> probably go SQLServer anyway.
>
True enough. 

I get the impression that FAT-32 is still alive and kicking as the 
default FS on a lot of small/medium flash drives, so they just might have 
retained the 4GB limit to make it easier to backup or transfer database 
files on these media.


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