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Microsoft is now getting into the lightweight database game with SQL Server Data Services. It looks to follow a similar pattern to simpleDB and CouchDB with named,Office Pro 2007 Key, attribute pairs in a flat storage space and accessibility through REST. Some of the interesting things they are bringing to the game: Query data using LINQ Property support for simple data types (string,Windows 7 Starter, numeric,Office Professional 2010, date,Office Home And Stude/nt, boolean) Paging management for data retrieval Rich client library in C# and VB with LINQ support SSL Security It looks like a great cloud based simple storage system with some of the goodness MSSQL bring to the table. They are now signing up BETA testers and we will be putting some demos together to show how Access can work with these lightweight database systems. <div