Security will be awful. I'm an SS DBA. For one they seem to use the single known account (sa) which we disable EVERYWHERE because it's the first biggest known

Security will be awful. I'm an SS DBA. For one they seem to use the single known account (sa) which we disable EVERYWHERE because it's the first biggest known most common target of attack. In fact it's dangerous to use because it will lock randomly when anyone inside the company or elsewhere runs a scan and attempts a few passwords on it. Secondly SS is made to be patched. We get a new patch every single fucking month and sometimes twice a month. I spend 4 days per month simple patching SQL across half a thousand servers. This shit will never see it. Is this patchable? Not by any standard tools. Is this even discoverable? Fuck no. Nobody will know it exists. We don't do port scans - we look for known SQL services and use the SMO WMI ManagedComputer tools to identify them. This will work with neither. I've seen what developers do to their environments. Hundreds of copies of their databases. No backups (so logs grow and fill the disks and then I get called). No maintenance. Of course Express has no job scheduler so you're fucked anyway which is why I don't support it and instead move everyone onto Developer edition WHICH IS FREE. Anyone using this shit is on their own.