January 2006 - Posts

• Memory-mapped files and SQL Server

  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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:25 AM by khen1234 | 2 Comments

• Memory-mapped files and how they work

  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. Read More... Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 11:57 AM by khen1234 | 8 Comments

• More on Borland, Danny Thorpe, etc.

  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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:23 AM by khen1234 | 1 Comments

• Goodbye, My Friend

  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, Read More... Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 2:42 PM by khen1234 | 55 Comments