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sujit jha

sujit jha

8yAsked Mar 13, 2018, 11:41 PM749Visual Basic .NET

hello gys,

can anyone tell me whats diffrent between local database .sdf & .mdf

iam install vs2013, when i was add local database this software provide me local database.mdf

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Shweta Lodha8y ago
Accepted answer
sdf is the compact version or say mobile version of database which is useful for very limited set of users, whereas mdf is the big version with real sql server scenarios. If you are plannign to go for sdf, then please check as it doesn't support linq to sql in few of the framework versions.
Sagar Pandurang Kap8y ago
Hi,
Good morning ,

Try Reference from below link :-

https://rangasql.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/what-is-the-difference-between-sdf-and-mdf-files/

Hope it helps to clear your doubt.