CHAPTER 13

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Architecting Your System

Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric, writer, and collector

So far in the book, we started with how one should design a database without regard for technology, then covered how one might implement that database using SQL Server. So far the process has been one of building one precept upon another. The one topic we really haven’t breached is data access. But as SQL Server grows in complexity, we are given more and more choices. It is essential for the architect who is creating a new system, or even changing an existing system, to think about the architectural ...

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