November 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
34h 10m
English
The network is a slightly different case than the components discussed above. Network performance is important, but it affects SQL Server 2005 in a different manner than the other components. When executing a SQL statement, the CPU, memory, and I/O subsystems are all used extensively to execute that operation. Unless you are performing a distributed transaction or a query that includes a linked server, you will be accessing the network only during the beginning phase, when the query is submitted to the SQL Server database engine, and during the final phase, when the results are returned to the client. Thus, the execution of the query is not affected by a slow network.
The network is probably easier to ...
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