SQL Server 2005 practical troubleshooting : the database engine

This work provides insiders' Information for Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005.

This is the definitive guide to troubleshooting the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine, direct from the people who know it most intimately: the people who wrote it, designed it, and support it.

SQL Server expert Ken Henderson, author of the best-selling "Guru's Guides to SQL Server", has assembled a "dream team" of SQL Server developers and support engineers to provide in-depth troubleshooting and diagnostic information that has never been documented before: information that would be impossible to get without access to Microsoft's own source code.

From caching to clustering, query processing to Service Broker, this book will help you address even the toughest problems with database engine operations.

Each chapter begins with a brief architectural overview of a key SQL Server component, then drills down into the most common problems users encounter, offering specific guidance on investigating and resolving them.You'll find comprehensive, in-depth chapters on: Waiting and blocking; Data corruption and recovery; Memory; Procedure cache issues; Query processing; Server crashes and other critical failures; Service Broker; SQLOS and scheduling; tempdb; and Clustering.

This is the indispensable resource for everyone who must keep SQL Server running smoothly: DBAs, database application developers, API programmers, and Web developers alike.

CD-ROM contains the revolutionary SQL Server performance diagnostic tool, SQL NexusTM; TraceBusterTM, one of the world's fastest SQL Server Profiler trace reader/analyzers; DataDemonTM, one of the fastest, most versatile file import utilities available; and sample code and scripts from the book.