Distributed caches are used to improve the performance and scalability of applications. Typically, a distributed cache is shared by multiple application servers. In a distributed cache, the cached ...

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Microsoft has unveiled a distributed in-memory application cache platform it says will boost the performance and scalability of .NET apps. The company describes the server -- dubbed Project "Velocity" ...

A distributed cache ensures that the same key-value mapping will exist in all the copies of the same Map on every server participating in the cache and will update the caches everywhere in a lockstep.

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...