so, in practice, you want to hand over mail servers from Microsoft to
Oracle. Because large organizations use Oracle as their database
predominantly.
And since e-mail is text, these are large databases. Start thinking of
systems with 10,000 active users and 35,000 accounts, a mail quota of
100 megabytes, 7,000 open connections at any time, and you'll start
giving MySQL serious hiccups. and given MySQL has some blob/text
limitations at 16 megs, you have a different problem with really large
emails (no, I don't think sending stuff that large is a good idea....)
that's a lot of disk....
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Jason Hihn wrote:
OFF-TOPIC:
What I'd like to see is relational databases used for email storage.