Down and dirty database infrastructure

Does any have a link, or know of an MS book(s) that details the
underlying database structure, tables, processes? Something that
explains in detail how/why this stuff is configured and works, like
DDL, TDS, varchar, int, index, tables, normalization, DML, Primary
Key/Foreign key.Beeker (sqlserver2005dba@.gmail.com) writes:
> Does any have a link, or know of an MS book(s) that details the
> underlying database structure, tables, processes? Something that
> explains in detail how/why this stuff is configured and works, like
> DDL, TDS, varchar, int, index, tables, normalization, DML, Primary
> Key/Foreign key.

Sounds like you are looking for "Inside SQL Server 2000" by Kalen
Delaney.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...oads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodin...ions/books.mspx|||Thanks much.

The review, on Barnes and Nobel (
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bo...isbn=0735609985
), on her treatment of internals and other vaulable info are very
critical.

Then the Amazon comments praise her.
(
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...406348?n=283155
).

Comment?|||"Beeker" <sqlserver2005dba@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1143721430.783394.148200@.t31g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
> Thanks much.
> The review, on Barnes and Nobel (
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bo...isbn=0735609985
> ), on her treatment of internals and other vaulable info are very
> critical.
> Then the Amazon comments praise her.
> (
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/07...406348?n=283155
> ).
> Comment?

She knows her stuff. Extremely knowledgeable. Get the book.

You want a book on XML, there are definitely better ones.|||Thanks Strider.