Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

A new concept with old roots has started to come to the fore on the Internet: federation. Instead of a centralized system, typically run as the equivalent of a single giant database by a company with ...

Imagine the Internet had begun its life as a proprietary network from a major software vendor rather than evolved as a distributed network shared by researchers. It’s a future that almost came to pass ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

PC servers and commercial servers both utilize distributed power supplies. The power supplies for large servers consist of three main sections; a block that converts external AC into DC, a block that ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. We've heard a lot about network functions virtualization (NFV) moving functions onto servers, but there ...

In conjunction with the rollout of its next-generation .Net Framework 4.0 release, Microsoft is readying a new distributed application server, ""=""> Dublin -- a first Community Technology Preview ...

Is it possible to use linked services in MSSQL Server and execute queries if the Distributed Transaction Coordinator is not enabled?<BR><BR><BR><BR>Maybe this should be in the NT forum, but I thought ...

HP's new Proliant server mixes processing, networking, and storage units to optimize performance of Hadoop and the OpenStack cloud OS Hewlett-Packard is taking a step away from traditional server ...

Hi, I wonder if someone knows how the load, meaning the amount of queries, it is distributed between DNS servers.<br>For instance, I administer 3 DNS servers, on two different countries, so how does ...