Chapter 1. The Exchange 2013 Store

Long live JET!

Maximum database size

Dealing with I/O

Workers, controller, and memory

Managed Availability and the Managed Store

Database management

Transaction logs

Background maintenance

Corrupt item detection and isolation

Rebuilding a database

Database usage statistics

Mailbox assistants

And now for something completely different

Maintaining and evolving a database isn’t an easy engineering challenge, especially when the database has to deal with transactions that vary widely, from a simple 10 KB message sent to a single recipient to a message sent to a large distribution (with each address individually expanded in the header) accompanied by a 10 MB Microsoft PowerPoint attachment. Today’s competitive environment and ...

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