FMS and DBMS are moving together. Oracle has already tried it. Microsoft is now doing so as well (note the date is 2002 on the following article):

http://news.com.com/2009-1017-857509.html

It's been talked about for awhile about Microsoft going to a SQL Server based file system. Longhorn may bring about that reality. More (from an article dated today Aug 4):

http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5058990.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed

K. Brian Kelley

http://www.truthsolutions.com/

Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring

http://www.netimpress.com/

Edited by - bkelley on 08/04/2003 07:19:22 AM