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Benjamin Nevarez, High Performance SQL Server, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2271-3_1

1. How SQL Server Works

Benjamin Nevarez

(1)Santa Clarita, California, USA

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SQL Server default configuration allows you to run noncritical applications with only minimal, if any at all, additional configuration changes (and sometimes even with no additional or minimal administration and monitoring). This is especially true for applications running the lower SKUs of the product such as SQL Server Express. However, for most production applications you need to follow a database ...

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