To help you design the database server is Microsoft who should achieve the best performance possible, Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 has the details you need. For one thing, the author Kalen Delaney (who used the first edition of Ron Soukup fantastic as a starting point) to explain how SQL Server 2000 to work at a level that will attract all the database administrator. He is in the packaging of the little things that can make a real difference in the performance of data-storage structures, especially large or complex, to explain what happens in the database management system (DBMS) when it is served with various commands, and use that information to return to top abundant advice on the right path to design, build, and operate a database in SQL Server 2000. Delaney extensive use dbcc PAGE dumps to show what happens in the database that shows the concepts (incidentally, the utility is documented, as well as others in the toolbox dbcc). There is concern for the structure of the database at the byte level as well, with conceptual diagrams that explain how pointers work and how to string a string of bytes that combine to represent stored data.