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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals

by Bob Beauchemin Kalen Delaney Conor Cunningham, Jonathan Kehayias, Benjamin Nevarez, and Paul S. Randal
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
982 pages
34h 23m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 2. The SQLOS

Jonathan Kehayias

The SQL Server Operating System (SQLOS) is a separate application layer at the lowest level of the SQL Server Database Engine that both SQL Server and SQL Reporting Services run atop. Earlier versions of SQL Server have a thin layer of interfaces between the storage engine and the actual operating system through which SQL Server makes calls to the operating system for memory allocation, scheduler resources, thread and worker management, and synchronization objects. However, the services in SQL Server that need to access these interfaces can be in any part of the engine. SQL Server requirements for managing memory, schedulers, synchronization objects, and so forth have become more complex. Rather than each ...

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