On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:58:43PM -0500, Forrest Dickinson wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> >
> > b. from what I hear, these files get corrupted on a regular basis; and
> > they take *forever* to fix. I know of an administrator who has a quad
> > xeon box, just for rebuilding corrupt Exchange databases. (and it
> > still takes many hours to rebuild them).
> >>Both of these are addressed if you set up the message store to be an SQL
> >>server, or so someone said earlier this week on the list.
> 
> 
> You cant use SQL as your message store with exchange server its not an
> option also the problems people had with database corruption on exchange
> server were with version 4.0 and 5.0 Microsoft completely redesigned the
> database store with exchange 5.5 and again in exchange 2000 I have had
> exchange 5.5 running for over 2 years and have yet to have any database
> corruption and we store a lot of data in exchange both of our Exchange
> Servers have over 10 gigs of data stored on each of them (not that this
> compares with some oracle installations but exchange and oracle are two
> different products with two different purposes)