Ken Henderson's WebLog

I guess the other shoe has finally dropped at Borland. Chief Scientist Danny Thorpe has left. He jumped ship for Google in December . I received the news with mixed emotions. On the one hand, it’s a terrible, perhaps fatal, loss for Borland. On the other...

A key Windows facility that’s been available since NT shipped is the support of memory-mapped files. A memory-mapped file is a file that has been mapped (i.e., not copied) into virtual memory such that it looks as though it has been loaded into memory...

Continuing the discussion from yesterday about memory-mapped files, how do they affect SQL Server? Every DLL referenced by the server (Windows libs, Net Libraries, C RTL libs, etc.), every DLL they reference, and so forth, requires virtual memory address...

There's been some churn over in the newsgroups re: my post yesterday about my concerns over Borland's future. I decided to respond over there, and I thought it might make sense to repeat that post here for anyone else who took issue with the post. For...