Let's Print Up A Fresh Batch And Get It Right To 'Em!

by Michael D. Hume, M.S.

Know what's really awesome? Hearing lectures from our communist friends in China (and our recently-communist friends in Russia) about how, despite the big debt deal, America still doesn't have its fiscal house in order. We're spending too much, they say, and our debt is still spiraling out of control. And it's even more awesome to realize they're 100% correct.

Exchange Server databases are consisted of .edb files (database files) and .log files (database logs). All the transactions that occur for Exchange databases are first written to .log files before actually been written to database files. A database is inconsistent if all transaction log files have not been committed to the database files. But if you shut down the information service, Exchange writes all the log files to .edb files and the database comes to a completely consistent state. Thus, if you backup the database while information service is running, it will not be consistent.