Whenever you use an ATM to check your balance or withdraw some money, you are actually participating in a client-server interaction with a computer on your bank's network. A client-server network ...

As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

Old computer systems were very easy to understand. You would simply enter data into your workstation and it would be fed to the mainframe computer. Called a master/slave system, the mainframe master ...

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or a ...