Pro SQL Server Internals

Part 1: Tables and Indexes

1. Data Storage Internals

2. Tables and Indexes

3. Statistics

4. Special Indexing and Storage Features

5. SQL Server 2016 Enhancements

6. Index Fragmentation

7. Designing and Tuning the Indexes

Part 2: Other Things That Matter

8. Constraints

9. Triggers

10. Views

11. Functions
12. XML and JSON

13. Temporary Tables and TempDB

14. CLR

15. CLR Types

16. Data Partitioning

Part 3: Locking, Blocking, and Concurrency

17. Lock Types and Transaction Isolation Levels

18. Troubleshooting Blocking Issues

19. Deadlocks

20. Lock Escalations

21. Optimistic Isolation Levels

22. Application Locks
23. Schema Locks

24. Designing Transaction Strategies

Part 4: Query Life Cycle

25. Query Optimization and Execution

26. Plan Caching

Part 5: Practical Troubleshooting

27. System Troubleshooting

28. Extended events

29. Query Store

Part 6: Inside the Transaction Log

30. Transaction Log Internals

31. Backup and Restore

32. High Availability Technologies

Part 7: In-Memory OLTP Engine

33. Column-Based Storage and Batch Mode Execution

34. Columnstore Indexes

Part 8: In-Memory OLTP Engine

35. In-Memory OLTP Internals

36. Transaction Processing in In-Memory OLTP

37. In-Memory OLTP Programmability