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Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals, The
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Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals, The

by Ken Henderson
October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1072 pages
24h 21m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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SQL Server Components

I will end this chapter by talking in broad terms about the various SQL Server components involved in processing the typical client request. Several of these are discussed in more detail in other chapters; we'll just hit the high points here. A typical client request is one that queries the server for data that resides in a database. Understanding how these components interoperate and the workflow between them will give you some good insight into how the server works internally.

As I've mentioned, client requests come into the server via SQL Server's Net-Libraries. These requests are then scheduled for processing via UMS. The language processing and execution (LPE) component within the server then takes each request and ...

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