PART I

Internals

• CHAPTER 1: SQL Server Architecture
• CHAPTER 2: Demystifying Hardware
• CHAPTER 3: Understanding Memory
• CHAPTER 4: Storage Systems
• CHAPTER 5: Query Processing and Execution
• CHAPTER 6: Locking and Concurrency
• CHAPTER 7: Latches and Spinlocks
• CHAPTER 8: Knowing Tempdb