Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals
by Paul Randal Kalen Delaney Kimberly Tripp, and Conor Cunningham
Who This Book Is For
This book is intended to be read by anyone who wants a deeper understanding of what SQL Server does behind the scenes. The focus of this book is on the core SQL Server engine—in particular, the query processor and the storage engine. I expect that you have some experience with both the SQL Server engine and with the T-SQL language. You don’t have to be an expert in either, but it helps if you aspire to become an expert and would like to find out all you can about what SQL Server is actually doing when you submit a query for execution.
This series doesn’t discuss client programming interfaces, heterogeneous queries, business intelligence, or replication. In fact, most of the high-availability features are not covered, but a ...
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