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.