The definitive guide to the architecture and internals of the premier enterprise-class RDBMS

Master the inner workings of today's premier relational database management system with this official guide to the SQL Server™ 2000 engine. Written by a renowned columnist in partnership with the product development team this is the must-read book for anyone who needs to understand how SQL Server internal structures affect application development and functionality. Its extensive details about the latest product enhancements updated installation and administration and its development advice can help you create high-performance data-warehousing transaction-processing and decision-support applications that will scale up for any challenge. Topics covered include:

• Evolution architecture and toolset: The history of SQL Server since 1989 an architectural overview and a comprehensive tour of its tools and features
• Planning and deployment: Everything you need to know about installation and deployment issues such as multiple instances Super Sockets and upgrades
• Databases files tables and data: How to create modify back up and restore databases files and tables; and how to query and modify data
• Built-in development tools: Using Query Analyzer and SQL Server Profiler to simplify system administration and optimize performance; programming with Transact-SQL; and extending functionality with batches transactions stored procedures and triggers
• Query-processing techniques: Multiple indexes hash and merge joins and data-manipulation capabilities such as parallel queries
• Internal architecture: Low-level details of data and index-page structures locking mechanisms optimization and plan caching
• Integration with other tools: Usage with Microsoft® Office 2000 Visual Studio® development system and the BackOffice® server family