As of July 1, 2012, Siriusware Inc. no longer supports using SQL Express as the primary Siriusware database. We recommend that clients using SQL Express make plans to purchase and upgrade to a supported version of SQL (SQL 2008 or SQL 2012 Standard or Enterprise versions). Unless you already own a supported version, you purchase SQL 2012, Microsoft’s latest version. As of July 1, 2012, issues related to the use of SQL Express are not covered by your support contract.

In the past, we felt that small installations that do not use E-Commerce or Access Control modules could effectively use SQL Express. However, due to the evolution of our product and the catastrophic failure that can occur if the database size limit of SQL Express is reached, we have made the decision to no longer support SQL Express. If your site reaches the database size limit (10GByte for SQL Express 2008), your system abruptly stops functioning causing severe operational issues. Additionally, new reports are now written using Microsoft Reporting Services using functionality that SQL Express does not fully support. Eventually, all reports will use Microsoft Reporting Services.