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Over the summer of 2012, Microsoft announced support for SQLite on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
This is exciting news because it allows developers to build enterprise and consumer apps that utilize the world’s most widely used embedded database engine. We all know that there’s no such thing as ubiquitous wireless connectivity and therefore mobile apps must have an offline data store so users can keep working in the absence of a wireless network. While apps with limited data requirements can serialize data offline as JSON or XML, certain enterprise line of business apps need a true mobile database to meet their larger data requirements.