December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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The SQL Server Database Engine
The Database Engine is the core application service in the SQL Server package for storing, processing, and securing data with SQL Server 2012. The SQL Server 2012 Database Engine is a Windows service that can be used to store and process data in a relational format, as XML documents, as spatial data, and new for 2012, as columnstore indexes. The following are the main responsibilities of the Database Engine:
Provide reliable storage for data
Provide a means to rapidly retrieve this data
Provide consistent access ...