Very exciting! The SQL Server 2008 Internals book we're working on with Kalen is now available to pre-order on Amazon, ahead of the planned publication date of February 18th next year.
I'm neck-deep in the Consistency Checking Internals chapter right now – its shaping up to be about 100 pages on its own!
There's no description yet on Amazon but at least you can pre-order – see here.
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There are a huge number of best practices around SQL Server performance tuning – I could easily write a whole book on the topic, especially
Jonathan had a client issue recently where SQL Server’s buffer pool had been forced down to a ridiculously small size, only a few hundred MB,
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One of the easiest ways to increase query performance in SQL Server is to make sure that it can quickly access the requested data, and
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2 thoughts on “SQL Server 2008 Internals available to pre-order on Amazon.com”
Do you know whether the new book of K. Delaney is a new version of her marvellous book : Inside SQL Server 2005 the storage engine , reviewed for SQL Server 2008 ?
If it is coming from the same vintage, i will get it to-morrow
Err – yes, isn’t that kind of clear?