Learn SQL Server Administration in a Month of Lunches is the perfect way to get started with SQL Server. This concise, easy-to-read book skips academic introductions and teaches you day-to-day techniques for maintenance, backup and recovery, performance monitoring, and more. Each of the 21 short lessons gives you practical takeaways you'll use over and over.

About the Author

Don Jones is a Microsoft MVP, speaker, and trainer. He is the creator of the Month of Lunches series and author of over 50 books on PowerShell, IIS, Active Directory, SCCM, SQL Server and more.

Table of Contents:
• Before you begin • Server assessment and configuration • T-SQL crash course • Managing databases • Backup and recovery • Authentication: who are you? • Authorization: what are you allowed to do? • Accounting: what did you do? • Analyzing indexes • Maintaining indexes • Tuning index designs • Reading query execution plans • Block and deadlock analysis • Automating management with SQL Server Agent • Multiserver management • Windows PowerShell and SQL Server • Using Extended Events • Monitoring and analyzing performance • Options for high availability • Virtualizing SQL Server • Moving, migrating and upgrading databases • SQL Server performance checklist • Never the end • Appendix Installing SQL Server • Index