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The Connect database
The Connect database is the database back-end used by Connect itself when processing jobs.
It can be either the MySQL instance provided by the Connect installer, or a pre-existing
(external) instance (see "Database Considerations" on page17).
All generated items (records, content items etc.) are stored in this database .
Note
Email content items are not stored in the Connect database.
A clean-up of the database is performed at regular intervals in accordance with the settings
(see "Clean-up Service preferences" on page337).
The File Store
Connect has its own File Store which it uses for transient files.
The Clean-up service takes care of removing obsolete files when those files are not marked as
permanent (see "Clean-up Service preferences" on page337).
The engines
DataMapper engine. A DataMapper engine extracts data from a data file. This is an internal
engine, for which there are no settings to make.
Merge engine/s. A merge engine merges data with a template using the scripts in the template,
in order to create (PrintorEmail) content items.
The number of merge engines is configurable (see Merge Engine Scheduling): it can be
increased depending on the capacity of the machine that runs the solution (see "Performance
Considerations" on page29).
Weaver engine . The Weaver engine creates Print output from Print content items. It takes the
settings made in Print Presets or in the Print Wizard into account.
The number of Weaver engines is configurable as well (see Weaver Engine Scheduling).
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