On Sun, 03 Mar 2019 08:30:48 +0100, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Bill Haught wrote: >> My main concern is that Microsoft has Enterprise versions of Windows and >> versions for everything else which makes me wonder if at some point >> Windows versions for desktop use may not have features needed by some >> database applications or differences between the versions may be enough >> to necessitate slight tweaks to code and compiling additional versions. > >Speaking as a semi-ignorant, I had the impressions that all Windows versions >are pretty similar under the hood (with occasional annoying behavior changes), >and most of the differences are on the GUI level, while the C API is pretty >much the same. > >Yours, >Laurenz Albe Server versions are optimized for running background services rather than interactive programs. I don't know all the differences offhand, but I do know the servers use different algorithms (not just settings) for scheduling, memory management, and file caching. It isn't possible to tweak a Windows desktop into a server with just settings - the server actually is running (at least some) different code. George
