Database vs. Application Virtually all of the paraphernalia of the modern SQL-Server style data model evolved in response to the many-single-users nature of the Microsoft client-server world.

So, what exactly is an ‘application server?’ The application environment In its simplest terms, an application server is simply an environment that provides all of the runtime services that your ...

Three-Tier Non-Web Environment An application server in a three-tier client/server environment provides middle tier processing between the user's machine and the database management system (DBMS).

Server-Side Caching with Memory-Optimized Tables The second-best solution is, when you go to your database server, hold your data in memory on your database server rather than on your hard disk. This ...

2-tier architecture is a client-server architecture where the server is versatile, meaning it can directly respond to all of the client's resource requests. In 3-tier architecture, however, the server ...

For our lab at Stanford University, we needed to build a multiple-tier database and programming project. I took advantage of this opportunity to find out whether a NAS device would do the job.