At the heart of it, an application server is simply an environment that enables your enterprise applications to run and be properly serviced at runtime. Of course, there are many vendors out there ...

There's been a shift in the enterprise Java community when it comes to what has commonly been referred to as an "application server." What was an application server? Historically, when an enterprise ...

In a non-Web environment, an application server performs the business logic (the data processing), although some amount of business logic may be handled by the user's machine. In a private or public ...

Application sharing between a client, middleware and enterprise server Application sharing between a client, application server and enterprise database server.

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 ...

We’ve all done it. We needed to pull data out of an SQL database, and the query we needed to pull out data was a complex query with multiple table joins, complex filter criteria, and sophisticated ...