Skip to Content
Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals, The
book

Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals, The

by Ken Henderson
October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1072 pages
24h 21m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals, The

Scripting Undocumented and System Objects

Enterprise Manager disables the Generate SQL Script menu item for objects marked as system objects (those whose system bit has been set via a call to sp_MS_marksystemobject). You can still double-click a system object in Enterprise Manager to display its source, but you can't edit it. The obvious intent here is to prevent people from accidentally modifying important internal objects. The Properties dialog for stored procedures and similar objects is a pain to use, and I rarely subject myself to trying to view or edit the source to procedural objects with it. It's a modal dialog (and, therefore, doesn't have a maximize button), and it's also missing a resize grip in its lower right corner, something every ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

SQL Server DMVs in Action

SQL Server DMVs in Action

Ian Stirk
Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting

Professional SQL Server 2012 Internals and Troubleshooting

Christian Bolton, James Rowland-Jones, Glenn Berry, Justin Langford, Gavin Payne, Amit Banerjee
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed

Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0201700476Purchase book