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ESE

ESE

Extensible Storage Engine. The Extensible Storage Engine is a multi-user, indexed table manager. It is a database format used by a number of Microsoft Windows applications and components.

The typical file extension of the database page file is .edb. This is the file format used by Microsoft Exchange, Windows Update, Windows search and some other windows components.

The Extensible Storage Engine is known to use the following types of file: .chk, .edb, .tmp.edb, .log, .tmp.log, .jcp, .jrs, .jtx and .tmp.jtx.

For more information see:

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310772.aspx - Information on the Extensible Storage Engine Architecture.
• http://everything.explained.at/Extensible_Storage_Engine - Extensible Storage Engine Explained.
• www.emmet-gray.com/Articles/ESE.htm - Article on using ESE in VB.
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5c485eff-4329-4dc1-aa45-fb66e6554792.aspx - Microsoft article on the Extensible Storage Engine.
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg294069(v=EXCHG.10).aspx - Extensible Storage Engine files; lists other file types used by the Extensible storage engine.