Improve your ability to develop, manage, and troubleshoot SQL Server solutions by learning how different components work under the hood, and how they communicate with each other. The detailed knowledge helps in implementing and maintaining high-throughput databases critical to your business and its customers. You ll learn how to identify the root cause of each problem and understand how different design and implementation decisions affect performance of your systems.

New in this second edition is coverage of SQL Server 2016 Internals, including In-Memory OLTP, columnstore enhancements, Operational Analytics support, Query Store, JSON, temporal tables, stretch databases, security features, and other improvements in the new SQL Server version. The knowledge also can be applied to Microsoft Azure SQL Databases that share the same code with SQL Server 2016.

Pro SQL Server Internals is a book for developers and database administrators, and it covers multiple SQL Server versions starting with SQL Server 2005 and going all the way up to the recently released SQL Server 2016. The book provides a solid road map for understanding the depth and power of the SQL Server database server and teaches how to get the most from the platform and keep your databases running at the level needed to support your business. The book:
Provides detailed knowledge of new SQL Server 2016 features and enhancements
Includes revamped coverage of columnstore indexes and In-Memory OLTP Covers indexing and transaction strategies
Shows how various database objects and technologies are implemented internally, and when they should or should not be used

Demonstrates how SQL Server executes queries and works with data and transaction log

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This second edition of Pro SQL Server Internals provides the detailed knowledge that database professionals need in order to advance and be successful in their careers. Readers gain deep understanding that frees them from checklist-based approaches and allows fluid and creative approaches to configuring databases to meet business needs, and to maintaining those systems over the long haul. Database administrators are able to act from a depth of knowledge and respond and adapt quickly to changing business needs. Developers are able to engineer highly-performing systems with appropriate hooks for troubleshooting and diagnosis of abnormal events. Readers are able to go beyond the manuals and create database applications able to handle the intense query workloads that characterize an age of Big Data, Cloud Computing, and the Internet.