On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > b. from what I hear, these files get corrupted on a regular basis; and > they take *forever* to fix. I know of an administrator who has a quad > xeon box, just for rebuilding corrupt Exchange databases. (and it > still takes many hours to rebuild them). >>Both of these are addressed if you set up the message store to be an SQL >>server, or so someone said earlier this week on the list. You cant use SQL as your message store with exchange server its not an option also the problems people had with database corruption on exchange server were with version 4.0 and 5.0 Microsoft completely redesigned the database store with exchange 5.5 and again in exchange 2000 I have had exchange 5.5 running for over 2 years and have yet to have any database corruption and we store a lot of data in exchange both of our Exchange Servers have over 10 gigs of data stored on each of them (not that this compares with some oracle installations but exchange and oracle are two different products with two different purposes) Forrest Dickinson Network Administrator Morgan Hunter Companies 7600 West 110th Street Overland Park, KS 66210 (913) 409-1230 mailto://fdickinson@morganhunter.com http://www.morganhunter.com