December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1560 pages
40h 44m
English
The key features required of an enterprise-level database server platform are preemptive scheduling, virtual paged memory management, symmetric multiprocessing, and asynchronous I/O. Unlike some other database platforms, SQL Server relies on the Windows operating system to provide these capabilities and uses them fully. Under Windows NT and Windows 2000, the SQL Server engine runs as a single process and, within that process, uses multiple threads of execution. SQL Server relies on the operating system to schedule each thread to the next available processor.
Unlike some other DBMS platforms that run as multiple processes under Windows NT, SQL Server runs as a single process using multiple operating ...
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