Technology Questions

Windows services, previously known as NT services, are applications that are installed on the system as system services. In other words, Windows services are applications that run in the background with the Windows operating system. The primary use of Windows services is to reduce the consumption of memory required for performing backend operations. Let's take an example to understand this easily. Suppose you want to perform a variety of functions, such as monitor the performance of your computer or application, check the status of an application, and manage various devices, such as printers.

In such a case, you can use Windows services to reduce memory consumption. In addition, Windows services can run on your system even if you have not logged on to your computer. In addition, these services do not have any user interface.

Node.js uses a single threaded model with event looping.

Dynamic binding (also known as late binding) means that the code associated with a given procedure call is not known until the time of the call at run time.It is associated with polymorphism and inheritance.

There are many algorithms that can be used to analyze the database to check the maintenance of all the data sets that are already present. The different types of cluster models include as follows:

- Connectivity models: these are the models that connect one cluster to another cluster. This includes the example of hierarchical clustering that is based on the distance connectivity of one model to another model. 

- Centroid models: these are the models that are used to find the clusters using the single mean vector. It includes the example of k-means algorithm.

- Distribution models: it includes the specification of the models that are statistically distributed for example multivariate normal distribution model.

- Density models: deals with the clusters that are densely connected with one another in the regions having the data space. 

- Group models: specifies the model that doesn’t provide the refined model for the output and just gives the grouping information

Star schema: A highly de-normalized technique. A star schema has one fact table and is associated with numerous dimensions table and depicts a star.

Snow flake schema: The normalized principles applied star schema is known as Snow flake schema. Every dimension table is associated with sub dimension table.

Differences:

- A dimension table will not have parent table in star schema, whereas snow flake schemas have one or more parent tables.

- The dimensional table itself consists of hierarchies of dimensions in star schema, where as hierarchies are split into different tables in snow flake schema. The drilling down data from top most hierarchies to the lowermost hierarchies can be done.

Data warehousing is a process of repository of electronic data of an organization. For the purpose of reporting and analysis, data warehousing is used. The essence concept of data warehousing is to provide data flow of architectural model from operational system to decision support environments. 

The mail() function of PHP is quite robust for sending bulk emails. A SMTP server can also be directly used from the script. PHPmailer class can be used for sending emails.

A data warehouse is a relational database that is designed for query and analysis rather than transaction processing. It usually contains historical data that is derived from transaction data, but it can include data from other sources. Data warehouses are designed to help you analyze your data.