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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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UMS Design Goals

Several goals were established at the outset of this research. The scheduling facility needed to:

  • Support fibers, a feature new in Windows NT 4.0, and abstract working with them so that the core engine would not need separate code lines for thread mode and fiber mode

  • Avoid causing a thread to switch into kernel mode whenever possible

  • Avoid context switches as much as possible

  • Support asynchronous I/O and abstract working with it so that the core engine would not need a separate code line for versions of Windows that do not support asynchronous file I/O (e.g., Windows 9x and Windows ME)

Ultimately, it was decided that SQL Server 7.0 should handle its own scheduling. From that decision, the User Mode Scheduler (UMS) component was ...

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