Technology Questions

MapReduce is a software framework that was created by Google. It`s prime focus was to aid in distributed computing, specifically large sets of data on a group of many computers. The frameworks took its inspiration from the map and reduce functions from functional programming.

LINQ stands for " Language Integrated Query " and it is pronounced as "LINK".
LINQ was introduced in with .NET framework 3.5 including VS2008. It enables you to query the data from various data source like SQL, XML document, ADO .NET data source, web services and any other objects such as Collection, Generics etc...

It is a way to convert the original text of the stored procedure into encrypted form. The stored procedure gets obfuscated and the output of this is not visible to

CREATE PROCEDURE Abc

WITH ENCRYPTION

AS

<< SELECT statement>>

GO

The Active Directory database is stored on domain controllers and is accessible by network applications. All domains can be domain controllers and keep a copy of the Active Directory database in C:\windows\Ntds\Ntds.dit

Kano analysis is a systems analysis tool used to identify its impact on customer’s satisfaction based on 3 key areas: unexpected delighters, performance attributes and must have attributes.

netstat -n  (on Dos prompt)

ConstKeyword indicates that memory once initialized, should not be altered by a program.
Volatile keyword indicates that the value in the memory location can be altered even though nothing in the program.
Mutable keyword indicates that particular member of a structure or class can be altered even if a particular structure variable, class, or class member function is constant.

We use SQLPASSTHROUGH options when we need applications to access data both in the front-end and back-end data servers with a single connection. SQL statements that cannot be executed in the solidDB front-end server are passed over to the back end. 

SQLPASSTHROUGH mode can be set as per session or per transaction. The connection between the front end and back end is made with a back-end compatible ODBC driver which is loaded dynamically in solidDB server.