The actual prognostication I heard at a Windows NT5 preview (pick your date
based on *that* statement) was that we'd have two data stores - one for
structured (i.e. SQL) data and the other for unstructured (i.e. email,
files, etc) data. So, the idea was that NTFS (version ??) would handle email
storage. Think of what's out there with RIS today for SIS in a file tree -
but on a full filesystem scale.
There's a performance penalty, quite significantly so, for variable length
fields, in databases. At some point, the system bus speeds will stop being
the bottlenecks, and they'll have to consider issues like in building data
stores.
The published information has led me to believe that its more a data storage
strategy rather than a product. I also think that there's a difference
between the front end and back end technologies, and significant benefits to
be had from building a unified front end to distict back ends. I mean, can
you imagine build your own folders??
select mailfrom, subject, date, size from email_messages where
mailfrom = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Or would that be:
delete from email_messages where mailfrom = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"...
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Roger D. Seielstad - MTS MCSE MS-MVP
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:29 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Add junior admin to Local
> workstations admin grou p
>
>
> Well, let's be a bit cautious on that statement. What I
> understand to be
> the case is that: (and this is widely publicized - I was put
> under severe
> NDA - then Bill Gates talked about it 1 day after I was
> threatened within an
> inch of my life.....)
>
> Microsoft has this new, cool DB technology that is being used in:
>
> * Yukon - the next version of SQL Server
> * Longhorn Client for the file system (WinFS)
> * Future server versions for AD database (Longhorn server,
> Blackcombe - you
> figure it out)
> * Future versions of Exchange for store database
> * etc, etc, etc.
>
> Now, one might this that this is all really suprising and a
> sweeping change.
> And, by some rights, it is. But, if you take a look at the
> store and AD
> (ntds) database today - they're very much the same; and
> strikingly similar
> to SQL 2000.
>
> The big change is really the file system.
>
> So, to say that Exchange is going to be based on SQL, yeah,
> that's pretty
> much true. But, then, so will AD, and WinFS - but SQL will
> be based on a
> base technology that is shared amongst the entire server family.
>
> I haven't had the DBAs over lately trying to convince upper
> management that
> they own Exchange or AD - and that's not likely to happen in the next
> iteration, either. Do I think that you need to get to know
> Yukon (which
> will likely be the first PUBLICLLY available (not beta, not
> preview) code of
> the next gen database, ummmmm. Yeah. That might be a really
> good idea.
>
> Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT
> Microsoft MVP - Active Directory
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Costanzo, Ray
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Add junior admin to Local
> workstations admin grou p
>
> Let's not forget about SQL Server here, which will replace Exchange.
>
> Ray at work
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Scary part is that Exchange is still one of the best products
> Microsoft's
> ever put out. Just takes someone who really understands it to run it..
>
>
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