hotmail.com database?
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Any one knows what database hotmail.com service is using? Many Thanks, Jassim Rahma Jassim Rahma
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Any one knows what database hotmail.com service is using? Many Thanks, Jassim Rahma Jassim Rahma
jrahma wrote: Any one knows what database hotmail.com service is using? If it's not SQL 2000, M$ would be busy with the conversion. Cheers Mike Johannesburg, South Africa
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jrahma wrote: Any one knows what database hotmail.com service is using? If it's not SQL 2000, M$ would be busy with the conversion. Cheers Mike Johannesburg, South Africa
I'd like to think so too, but there still seems to be a bunch of UNIX in the Hotmail backend. I think Passport is the only pure MS part of Hotmail at the moment. Cheers, Simon "The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.", Chris Carter.
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I'd like to think so too, but there still seems to be a bunch of UNIX in the Hotmail backend. I think Passport is the only pure MS part of Hotmail at the moment. Cheers, Simon "The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.", Chris Carter.
my svg article(Disclaimer: I work for a company producing email products, but I have no insider knowledge of hotmail.com beyond what I have read and heard over the years). I'm not sure hotmail.com uses a database in the traditional sense of "database" beyond the Passport authentication. The messages are likely to be held in flat files. Email systems just don't work the same way as databases in general. Even the now defunct Internet Mail Service from Microsoft held each message in a single RFC-822 formatted file, with an index file for the meta-data. However, a quick look at the SMTP servers indicate that they are now running Microsoft stuff on at least some of their servers (It looks like Exchange 2K), and their web servers are running IIS, so I guess that they are running Microsoft stuff now. It should be noted that on an Exchange 2K server (at least my Exchange 2K server), I can change directory to M:\sitename\MBX\ahall\INBOX and see a series of file .EML. If I connect to the IMAP port, then I see appear as an IMAP UID. .EML format is the same RFC-822 format that their defunct Internet Mail Service saved data as. So even in Exchange 2K, the database functionality is seriously limited. -Adrian