The page is the fundamental unit of data storage in [!INCLUDEssNoVersion]. An extent is a collection of eight physically contiguous pages. Extents help efficiently manage pages. This guide describes ...

In this talk, I present an architectural overview of the SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse DBMS system. PDW is a massively parallel-processing, share-nothing, scaled-out version of SQL Server for DW ...

Test-Drive SQL Server Data Services: Figure 1 Layered Architecture Is Highly Scalable. 06/23/2008; SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) persists flexible Entity sets in specially customized, clustered SQL ...

The basic architecture of SQL Server, as well as other major database systems, goes back to a time when main memories were (very) small, data lived on disk, machines had a single (slow) processor, and ...

Massively-Parallel Processing (MPP) in SQL Server. Now that we’ve laid the groundwork for APS, let’s dive into how we load and process data at such high performance and scale. The PDW region of APS is ...

Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing demand for the development of authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) systems for WLAN networks. In this paper we present a network ...