On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:51:35AM +1300, Jason Haar wrote:
> Just on a related note.
>
> M$ were intending moving Exchange to M$-SQL (via Transaction Server) - but
> gave up that idea as the performance would never be as good.
>
> I think it would be fair to deduce from that, that a major player in this
> market doesn't think SQL is appropriate for Email - draw what you will from
> that...
Do Oracle store email in their database with 8i?
I vaguely thought they did.
There is nothing instrinsically wrong with using a database to store email,
but the cost/benefits have to be there and I don't think the original
poster made it clear what cost/benefits would be for his scenario.
Mark.