Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Internally, this task is executed as the DBCC SHRINKDATABASE() function."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

DBCC CHECKDB(<database_name>, REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS)

New terms and important words are shown in bold.

Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "It's actually a button in the Regressed Queries window under the Query Store node."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.