I have never seen a degradation using the registry due to the number of users. The OS indexes it rather well for access. You are in the situation I was talking about where you have a central management for your user base. Len's comments would be the best of both worlds as long as you can live with non-realtime aspects of the db replication.
Hope that answers your question (if I understood it correctly) Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Reinhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail Internal Database versus MSSQL > Eric, > > I just do not understand this statement. Sure for small installs I can see > accessing a registry entry versus a SQL server would be faster, but what > about 100,000 users? Wouldn't the severely bloated registry slow things > down significantly enough to make SQL Server a realistic solution? > > I ask because we are using SQL here for our approx. 1500 users and > have never had problems or speed issues. Of course, we would not > change as our management systems run off the SQL dbase and the > integration is important to us. > > Jeff > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Shanbrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:37 PM > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail Internal Database versus MSSQL > > > > The main thing is the Internal Imail DB (registry) is a lot faster than > any > > SQL connection could/will be. The _only_ reason I can think of to use > _any_ > > external DB would be to tie IMail to other management applications > (billing, > > radius,etc) and have a central point of management > > > > Eric S > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chuck Schick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "IMail_Forum (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:24 PM > > Subject: [IMail Forum] Imail Internal Database versus MSSQL > > > > > > > What are the pros and cons of using the Imail internal database versus > > > MSSQL? > > > > > > Chuck Schick > > > Warp 8, Inc. > > > 303-421-5140 > > > www.warp8.com > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
