Introduction to the Active Directory Database
Active Directory uses a fault-tolerant transactional database for storing objects, the schema, and configuration information. You can divide the database into two main parts: the directory database and the transaction logs.
As an administrator, you will need to know how to prepare for the storage of the directory (sizing), how to maintain the database, and how the database operates.
Understanding Transactional Databases
The Active Directory database is transactional. This means two things. First, it means that every modification to the database is written first to a page in memory and then to the log file and is finally committed to the database. Second, every transaction is atomic. This means that ...
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