There has been quite a lot of interest building up recently around SQL Compact 4. Now, if you are not familiar with SQL compact, it's basically a database engine that is free and totally embedded. You don't need to install a database anywhere on your server. Not only that, but

I'm currently working on a project where I need to quickly insert a list of Countries and Us States into a database table. This is not the first time that I've needed to have a useful script handy for this sort of thing. I had a quick look around the