Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals

Introduction

The book you are now holding is the evolutionary successor to the Inside SQL Server series, which included Inside SQL Server 6.5, Inside SQL Server 7, Inside SQL Server 2000, and Inside SQL Server 2005 (in four volumes). The Inside series was becoming too unfocused, and the name "Inside" had been usurped by other authors and even other publishers. I needed a title that was much more indicative of what this book is really about.

SQL Server 2008 Internals tells you how SQL Server, Microsoft’s flagship relational database product, works. Along with that, I explain how you can use the knowledge of how it works to help you get better performance from the product, but that is a side effect, not the goal. There are dozens of other books on ...