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What is a File server?
File servers are useful for sharing files across a network. With a file server, the client passes requests for file records over nerwork to file server.
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What is meant by Transparency?
Transparency really means hiding the network and its servers from the users and even the application programmers.
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What is meant by Middleware?
Middleware is a distributed software needed to support interaction between clients and servers. In short, it is the software that is in the middle of the Client/Server systems and it acts as a bridge between the clients and servers. It starts with the API set on the client side that is used to invoke a service and it covers the transmission of the request over the network and the resulting response.It...
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What are the two broad classes of middleware?
General middlewareService-specific middleware
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What are the characteristics of Client/Server?
ServiceShared resourcesAsymmentrical protocolsTransparency of locationMix-and-matchMessage based exchangesEncapsulation of servicesScalabilityIntegrityClient/Server computing is the ultimate "Open platform". It gives the freedom to mix-and-match components of almost any level. Clients and servers are loosely coupled systems that interact through a message-passing mechanism.
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What is meant by Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP)?
It imposses hierarchy and a division of labour among processors. Only one designated processor, the master, controls (in a tightly coupled arrangement) slave processors dedicated to specific functions.
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What is ACID property?
ACID is a term coined by Andrew Reuter in 1983, which stands for Atomicity, Consistence, Isolation and Durability.
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What is meant by Horizontal scaling and Vertical scaling?
Horizontal scaling means adding or removing client workstations with only a slight performance impact.Vertical scaling means migrating to a larger and faster server machine or multiservers.
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What are Stored procedures?
A stored procedure ia s named collection of SQL statements and procedural logic that is compiled, verified and stored in a server database. It is typically treated like any other database object. Stored procedures accept input parameters so that a single procedure can be used over the network by multiple clients using different input data. A single remote message triggers the execution of a collection...
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What are the five major technologies that can be used to create Client/Server applications?
Database ServersTP MonitorsGroupwareDistributed ObjectsIntranets.
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