- Paperback: 1088 pages
- Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2000 ed. edition (Nov 22 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0735609985
- ISBN-13: 978-0735609983
- Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 19 x 5.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.9 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #549,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 has the details you need to design Microsoft database servers that will achieve the best possible performance. For one thing, author Kalen Delaney (who used Ron Soukoup's fantastic first edition as a starting point) explains how SQL Server 2000 works at a level that will interest all database administrators. She packs in the sort of minutiae that can make a real difference in the performance of especially large or complex data-storage structures, explaining what goes on inside the database management system (DBMS) when it's presented with various commands, and using that information to back up her abundant advice on the right way to design, build, and operate databases under SQL Server 2000.
Delaney makes extensive use of DBCC PAGE dumps to show what's going on in the databases that demonstrate concepts (incidentally, that utility is documented, as well as the others in the DBCC toolbox). In a typical section, DBCC PAGE is used to show how index pages work. There's careful attention to database structure at the byte level too, with conceptual diagrams that explain how pointers work and how strings of bytes combine to represent stored data. It's the sort of detail you need if you'll be writing software for SQL Server 2000, or need to extract maximum performance from the DBMS itself.
Topics covered: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 internals, especially data structures and the behaviour of queries. Table design is emphasised, especially indexing decisions. Transact-SQL programming, including the use of cursors, gets lots of attention. --David Wall
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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 familyINCLUDED ON TWO CD-ROMS!
- A 120-day evaluation copy of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition
- A searchable electronic copy of the book
- Sample scripts
- White papers and articles
- Tools and utilities
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I have been working with SQL Server for the last five years and about two years ago when I was in a dilemma about transactions I purchased this book. It totally cleared all my concepts and I was able to not only resolve transaction problems that I was having but also become an expert within my firm. The book helped me gain a lot of respect with my fellow collegues. If you are looking to really become a SQL Server black belt and get a great understanding of what happens INSIDE then this is a highly recommended book.
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This book is a must-have for DBAs or developers who want an inside view of SQL Server's architecture. It contains very little content duplicated from Books Online and delves much deeper than the majority of SQL Server books available. Delaney shows everything from how data is actually stored on disc to the internals of the query optimizer. I find her writing style to be smooth and easy to digest, and I had no problem reading this book cover-to-cover. Highly recommended.
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Very good book,
This review is from: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (Paperback)
We recently moved from Informix to Sql 2K and found this book very useful. Thanks to this and Henderson's book we were able to make the migration in 6 months. We actually unplugged the Informix server yesterday.This book teaches how Sql works inside. The product docs don't even tell half the story, so a book like this can help fill in the gaps.
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