Difference: Job run in foreground, job run in background and batch job

Hi Gurus,
Can you please help me to know what are the differences between job run in foreground, job run in background and batch job? Do jobs in foreground run in presentation server? Do jobs in background or batch jobs run in application server?
Thanks,
Kumar

foreground job running may cause job running crash or failed if it is too big or server is busy and it take too long time. meantime it will take one sap session.
background job will run base on request server status. and it will not take your sap session. and it will not failed normally.
and you can get the result by SM37.
my experience show that big report run in background normally faster than in foreground.
Edited by: JiQing Zhao on Sep 3, 2010 4:13 AM

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