Microsoft Access 2010 Bible

Chapter 36: Client/Server Concepts

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FIGURE 36.4

A database server can be overloaded by too many users.

Peripherals

Lots of client

computers

Server

computer

Database

Reports

Thousands of Internet users

Application servers are typically used to serve applications in large-scale client/server environ-

ments. Application servers often perform “load balancing” by directing user requests to server com-

puters that are less busy than heavily used servers. A Web server is used to serve applications in an

Internet environment and may simultaneously service many hundreds of users. A Web server is

generally focused on managing Web requests by sharing database server connections among many

Internet users. Web servers use connection pooling to share the database and other resources among

all the concurrent Web connections.