SQL Server internals and architecture guides
Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure Synapse Analytics Analytics Platform System (PDW)
The following guides are available. They discuss general concepts and apply to all versions of SQL Server, unless stated otherwise in the respective guide.
- Always On availability groups troubleshooting and monitoring guide
- Diagnose and resolve latch contention on SQL Server
- Diagnose and resolve spinlock contention on SQL Server
- SQL Server and Azure SQL index architecture and design guide
- SQL Server I/O fundamentals
- Memory management architecture guide
- Pages and extents architecture guide
- Post-migration Validation and Optimization Guide
- Query processing architecture guide
- Transaction locking and row versioning guide
- SQL Server transaction log architecture and management guide
- Thread and task architecture guide
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