OVERVIEW SQL Server is a very complex and powerful product, but it provides tremendous amounts of data about itself. You can use this metadata to improve your database design, increase performance, review security, and more. Joseph D. Booth will show readers sample scripts and queries using information schema views as well as SQL Server-specific views in SQL Server Metadata Succinctly.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Information Schema Server Information Database Properties Tables and Columns Performance Security
I actually read Database Design by this same author instead of this book, but I'm not going through the trouble of adding the book to the database (ironically).