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Named-Pipe Connections (Windows)

Named pipes are application programming interfaces (APIs) for bidirectional interprocess communication (IPC) on Windows. Named-pipe connections provide a high-level interface to network software by making transport-layer operations transparent. Named pipes store data in memory and retrieve it when requested, in a way that is similar to reading from and writing to a file system.

Named pipes are supported for local connections to the database server.

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