[Tfug] sorry 'bout the new thread

[Anthony Hess]

I haven't confirmed but I think Access Jet and Exchange Jet are two
different things.

(Don't think this is foss related : )

Tony

On 6/9/09, Eric Gearhart <eric at nixwizard.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Bexley Hall<bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> --- On Tue, 6/9/09, Liz_Ravenwood at beaerospace.com
>> <Liz_Ravenwood at beaerospace.com> wrote:
>>> Why wouldn't it be?  It  has relations, joins, tables,
>>> fields, recordsets, indices, pk's, fk's.  ???
>>>
>>> what is a "real" database
>>> by - was it Eric?  by Eric's definition?
>>
>> Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, etc.  :>
>>
>> People (myself included) tend to impose "expectations"
>> (performance, capabilities, etc.) on things as a threshold
>> for "what qualifies".  E.g., was Windows 3.1 an "operating
>> system"?
>>
>> <shrug>
>
> Hear, hear... I became very disillusioned by Jet as a database
> solution the first time I babysat an Exchange 5.5 server that wouldn't
> mount its information store all night (Exchange uses a modified Jet DB
> engine)
>
> See
> http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvradmin/thread/29a3cee8-a25e-4835-bbf2-87f40f342e4b
> for all the gory details of those days
>
> --
> Eric
> http://nixwizard.net
>
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