Hmmmm......................
Seems to me that the xServer on i and virtual partitions can use single disk file volumes.
Vmware uses single disk volumes.
MS Exchange has a single DB file for its message store.
SQL Server does the same.
I believe MySQL and other DBs probably do as well unless they break out the ISAM tables.
Therefore I would imagine these scenarios are all equally prone to problems so I hope that doesn't scare anyone from using SQL Server.
PS: We're running Rational Team Concert quite successfully with SQL Server as well.
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message: 3
date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:53:22 -0700
from: Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: How the SQL Server World Lives
When you look at how SQL Server vs OS/400 implements the database it would not be surprising the SQL Server would become corrupt. OS/400 maintain each table at the OS level. Each table and index is a separate object.
In contrast SQL Server is just a single binary file storing everything. SQL Server not part of the OS, just a program sitting on top of the OS. Think about must go in when you write a new records with variable length. Data must be copied from one location to another, space allocated and de-allocated. The surprising thing to me how well SQL Server manages to run giving the complexity of what it must do constantly but corruption is just about inevitable. .
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
To turn the question around, how many of you have seen corruption in
your SQL Server databases ?
Knock on Wood SQL Server has been pretty stable for our usage.
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