This article explains the specific differences that occur when a Grid DS-Client runs Daily Admin or Weekly Admin activities.

For a more general description, refer to the Knowledge Base article in “Administrative Processes”.

For standalone DS-Clients, Daily / Weekly Admin activities instruct the Microsoft SQL Server where the DS-Client databases reside to save a copy of the DS-Client databases in the DS-Client Buffer. By default, the DS-Client buffer is located in the folder configured as the default operating system temporary folder (usually C:\Windows\Temp).

For Grid DS-Clients, Daily / Weekly Admin activities instruct the Microsoft SQL Server where the DS-Client databases reside to save a copy of the DS-Client databases in the DS-Client Buffer of the node that performs the Daily / Weekly Admin activity.

The Daily / Weekly Admin activity is allocated to a node with a lower load by the Main Node of the Grid DS-Client.

By default, the DS-Client Buffer folder for a node in a Windows Grid DS-Client is the folder configured as the default operating system temporary folder (usually C:\Windows\Temp). The DS-Client Buffer can be configured for each node in the Grid DS-Client using the DS-Client Advanced Configuration options (see “DS-Client Advanced Configurations”).