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

• Design and develop database solutions with SQL Server.
  
• Troubleshoot design, concurrency, and performance issues.
  
• Choose the right database objects and technologies for the job.
  
• Reduce costs and improve availability and manageability.
  
• Design disaster recovery and high-availability strategies.
  
• Improve performance of OLTP and data warehouse systems through in-memory OLTP and Columnstore indexes.

Who This Book Is For

Developers and database administrators who want to design, develop, and maintain systems in a way that gets the most from SQL Server. This book is an excellent choice for people who prefer to understand and fix the root cause of a problem rather than applying a 'band aid' to it.

• Know how transaction isolation levels affect locking behavior and concurrency
  
• Troubleshoot and address blocking issues and deadlocks
  
• Provide required data consistency while minimizing concurrency issues
  
• Design efficient transaction strategies that lead to scalable code
  
• Reduce concurrency problems through good schema design
  
• Understand concurrency models for In-Memory OLTP and Columnstore Indexes
  
• Reduce blocking during index maintenance, batch data load, and similar tasks
  

Pro SQL Server Internals explains how different SQL Server components work "under the hood" and how they communicate with each other. This is the practical book with a large number of examples that will show you how various design and implementation decisions affect the behavior and performance of your systems.

Pro SQL Server Internals covers a multiple SQL Server versions starting with SQL Server 2005 all the way up to the recently released SQL Server 2014. You’ll learn about new SQL Server 2014 features including the new Cardinality Estimator, In-Memory OLTP Engine (codename Hekaton), and Clustered Columnstore Indexes. With Pro SQL Server Internals, you have a solid roadmap for understanding the depth and power of the SQL Server database backend, regardless of the version and edition of SQL Server you use.

Pro SQL Server Internals does the following:

• Explains how to design efficient database schema, 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 logs.

• Explains In-Memory OLTP internals, architecture and programmability, including data storage, indexing, multi-version concurrency control, transaction logging and recovery, and native compilation
  
• Covers SQL Server 2016 technology enhancements, including columnstore indexes and off-row storage
  
Guides in using In-Memory OLTP in new development and existing systems

• Grasp how SQL Server stores and works with data in memory-optimized tables
  
• Properly design and index memory-optimized tables
  
• Plan successful deployments, including the required memory size and I/O configuration
  
• Accelerate T-SQL processing through the creation of natively compiled modules
  
• Monitor and report on the benefits and performance of your In-Memory OLTP solutions
  
• Benefit from the technology in existing systems and in the systems with the mixed workload
  

• Covers In-Memory OLTP internals and architecture, including data storage, indexing, multi-version concurrency control, transaction logging, and recovery
• Illustrates In-Memory OLTP programmability and the process of native compilation
• Guides in using In-Memory OLTP in new development and existing systems.