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.

To understand how to do proper application server development, you need to understand how the two basic containers of an application server work, namely the Web container and the EJB container. 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 ...

The result? You end up using more database resources and fewer application server resources in order to achieve the data retrieval results you are looking for.

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 ...