Server roles

Part 2

Tim Begimov
Microsoft SQL
Files, files, and more files
 There is always an .mdf

 There is always an .ldf

 There are sometimes .ndf

 Filegroups can be many,

but only one of them is DEFAULT

 All of this complexity

pursues a single goal of
maximizing performance

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Server\Instance
 Everything looks complicated
if you look deep enough, so don’t

 SQL Server Instance

 Instance of a Database Engine
 Service that handles all
Requests to work with the data
in any of the DBs on that Instance

 1 Server = N Instances

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Recovery Models
 Simple
 No log backups
 Automatically reclaims
log space
 Full
 Requires log backups
 Can recover to an arbitrary
point in time
 Bulk-Logged
 Requires log backups
 Permits high-performance bulk copy operations

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Oracle
Oracle Database
 Datafile -> Tablespace
A schema: collection of logical structures of
data, or schema objects. Is owned by
a database user. User name = Schema name

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Oracle Server\Instance
 Context area = cache
 1 Instance – 1 DB
 User - Schema

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Oracle Home
 A directory where the Oracle software is installed
 an environment variable pointing to the directory where
the Oracle software is installed.
 Windows: echo %ORACLE_HOME%
 Linux: env | grep ORACLE_HOME or dbhome
 Oratab – Matches ORACLE_SID (DB identifier) and ORACLE_HOME (Linux
only)
 ORACLE_BASE – datafiles location

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Redo logs
 Archivelog and Noarchivelog
 Redo logs are united into groups
 Rewritten in cylces
 Writing to a new log -> Log Switching
 Can be forced
 Logs are commited upon creation of a Checkpoint

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SharePoint
SharePoint Basic Architecture
 The Intranet Portal is nothing but a simple ASP.Net website.
 SharePoint consists of:
 Web Front-End Server
 MS IIS
 Web-Application Server
 VBScript or JScript on top of
ASP.NET Framework, they
generate the pages and fetch
data from back-end
 SQL-Database Server
 Pretty much the entire content
and structure of the SharePoint
portal and sites

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Ol’ McDonald had a Farm…
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