On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
MS Exchange... one big Database
Exactly...
And that is one reason why I wouldn't touch this SQL idea with a 10
foot
pole.. the fact that Exchange works this way only proves my point... I
hear
all the time about Exchange servers crashing and the administrator
having to
rebuild the database while the mail server is down for the next 10
hours.
The bottom line is that using a SQL DB backend as mail storage is
putting
all your eggs in one basket.
Not really. With MySQL you can mirror and stripe data across multiple
back end servers. You lose one of the back end storage nodes? No big
deal. Just get a new one up and running before you lose all of its
mirrors.
Though, I would agree that using MS Exchange would be a bad idea.
