All that remains of the employee database from that period are six CSV files. I designed the tables to hold the data from the CSV files, imported the CSV files into a SQL database, and then answered ...

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Abstract: 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) ...

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 ...

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Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers ...

SQL Server keeps a buffer of all of the changes to data for performance reasons. It writes items to the transaction log immediately, but does not write changes to the data file immediately.

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