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by hacknat 3555 days ago
Yeah, I'd heard that was possible. Is it because the SQL server team abstracted their system calls?
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snuxoll 3555 days ago
They did more than abstract their own system calls, Microsoft SQL Server essentially runs it's own OS, aptly named SQLOS.
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notsentient 3555 days ago
That's not true, SQLOS is not a wrapper for system calls or another OS running on-top of a host platform. It's more of a resource/synchronicity/management layer: http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2015/11/11/sql-server-what-is-s...
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