If you use Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine 2000 for any projects, which is free and comes with the most important features of SQL Server like views, stored procedures, backup etc. - there are some limitations in terms of performance when there are many parallel queries but that is not a problem for small projects.

The only thing that is annoying is that by default it cannot be administered from remote.

Here's how to enable remote access and administration of MSDE:

Click Start, Run

Enter svrnetcn.exe too run the "SQL Server Network Utility"

Select "TCP/IP" from the Disabled protocols and click "Enable >>“ (as below):

Or if you prefer to do it by editing the registry directly, import these registry settings:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib]
"ProtocolList"=hex(7):74,00,63,00,70,00,00,00,00,00 



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib\Tcp]
"TcpHideFlag"=dword:00000000
"TcpDynamicPorts"=""
"TcpPort"="1433"

You can now access MSDE remotely with SQL Server Enterprise Manager, Microsoft Access or one of the free tools like MSDE Query Tool