The storage engine for AD is ESE, the Extensible Storage Engine, which is
derived from the storage engine known as "JET Blue". This is not to be
confused with JET Red, which is what Access uses. ESE is what Exchange 5.x
and before used; it is a highly scalable storage manager optimized for
sparse rows, which is what you find in directories.
-s
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> Kevin:
> I don't believe that AD is just a very modified Access database. There is
> a built in, theoretical limit on any Microsoft JET engine of 255
> concurrent
> user connections. See the MS link:
> http://www.microsoft.com/ACCESSDEV/Articles/QAJET30.HTM. The latest
> revision of JET that I know of is 4.0 and MS suggests that 20 concurrent
> users are the maximum.
>
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