In his second volume on SQL Server, England (a consultant and trainer) takes you through the goals of performance tuning and the elements of the physical database design process, including data volume analysis and transaction analysis. He then describes SQL Server storage structures, introduces clustered and nonclustered indexes, the query optimizer, the interaction between SQL Server and Windows 2000 in the area of CPU, and memory and disk I/O. The remaining chapters explain SQL Server locking mechanism, performance monitoring, and provides a performance tuning aide-m<'e>moire.