[clappski]

I have to say, I work for a bulge bracket bank ran entirely (well, mostly) on MSSQL 2008/2012, and I don't think I've ever had any issues with it, apart from the one set of DBs that someone decided to turn into a backend for an object store that seemingly didn't know anything about database design.

[jdright]

Yes, but as I said in my comment our use case is nothing like a Bank. See, using SQLExpress to build a desktop LOCAL database doesn't look like a smart move.