It's a Windows executable, in Windows' PE format. You could in principle ... requires a small amount of translation code—for example, SQL Server is built to use Windows' scatter/gather I/O ...

For example, SQL Server 2017 will include Active Directory (AD ... while Microsoft recommends that any file bigger than 8GB be zipped in LZ4 format. The actual work is NOT done on your client, but ...

(It is the same value and format no matter what method you use to retrieve the version information) At this point, you need to correlate your product version number with Microsoft’s marketing version ...