What to read about MS SQL server ... ?

Hello,
I just need an advice from you folks. I'm QE with some scripting skills. Now I've got an assignment to work with MS SQL 2008. My task is nothing with administration ... and mostly I will have to run SQL query and provide users with the results. Anyway ...
since I'm completely new to databases and to MS SQL as well I'd like to have some basic knowledge how database is organized, what are schema, system tables and etc.
Could you please point me to good on-line resource that could provide that info? It should not be sophisticated ... just basic but enough to understand how it works,
Thanks in advance.
EV

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