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| | DataBase Engines |
 | | However, the 3.0 version of the Microsoft Jet database engine, which appeared in Microsoft Access 95, was completely rewritten as a 32-bit multithreaded process. |
 | | In querying situations, in particular, the difference between the two engines may be small, due to the fact that the Microsoft Jet engine was rewritten to use many of the performance techniques originally found in the FoxPro engine. |
 | | One reason SQL Server may outperform those engines is that its processing power resides on a high-end machine that is not restricted by bottlenecks such as slow network infrastructure (that is, NIC cards, slow protocol, and transport). |
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