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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals
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Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Internals

by Bob Beauchemin Kalen Delaney Conor Cunningham, Jonathan Kehayias, Benjamin Nevarez, and Paul S. Randal
November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
982 pages
34h 23m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 4. Special databases

Kalen Delaney and Benjamin Nevarez

Chapter 3 introduced databases as a collection of objects such as tables, views, and stored procedures and discussed decisions that someone creating a new SQL Server database would have to make. This chapter covers some special databases, such as the SQL Server system databases, as well as database snapshots and the concept of contained databases. The system databases master, model, msdb, tempdb, and the resource database are installed on every instance of SQL Server, and this chapter explains the purpose of each. Because tempdb is critical for optimal functioning and performance of SQL Server, this chapter goes deeper into its internals. Database snapshots—an Enterprise Edition feature ...

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