This document provides an overview of SQL Server internals including:
- The query processing pipeline including parsing, optimizing, and executing queries.
- How the optimizer evaluates and chooses the most efficient query execution plan.
- The role of indexes, statistics, and parallelism in query optimization.
- Transaction logging and the different SQL Server recovery models.
- Key SQL Server memory structures like the buffer pool and query plan cache.
- Threading and scheduling within the SQL Server query processor.