Recap
Windows is a sophisticated, robust operating system that is comprised of several subsystems. Programmed using the Win32 API, it provides a mechanism that allows user applications to (indirectly) make calls into the system kernel code.
Windows provides an architecture that protects the system from being destabilized by errant user applications. It provides a virtual memory facility to alleviate the need for apps to implement their own virtual memory managers. And it provides memory-mapped files and copy-on-write support for making advanced memory management easy and efficient.
Get Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals, The now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
