Saving Space To Increase Performance

• by Neil Boyle

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Performance Tuning

Disk space is getting cheaper everyday. Why should you worry about the amount of space your data is consuming? This article by Neil Boyle presents some great reasons why you should be concerned.

A Lookup Strategy Defined

• by David Sumlin

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Basics

Most databases designs nowadays seem to have at least a few if not many lookup or reference tables. This article helps you define a strategy in how to design, approve, and deploy them.

Reusing Identities

• by Dinesh Priyankara

• SQLServerCentral.com

• T-SQL

Ever wanted to know how to reuse identity values after they're deleted? In this example by Dinesh, he shows you two methods to reuse the wholes in identity rows.

Y2K Strikes Again

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral.com

• T-SQL

Steve Jones recently got bit by a bug the reminded him of the Y2K fiasco. Read about the problem and how Steve solved the problem.

Free Utility : EnforcePass

• by Additional Articles

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

These sets of scripts will add minimum password enforcement when a login is created or its password changes.

Managing Jobs - Part 2

• by Andy Warren

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

Jobs are pretty basic aren't they? They are until you get a couple hundred, or a thousand. Andy continues talking about managing jobs by standardizing how you handle notifications and failures, and talks about an interesting idea to monitor jobs separately from SQL Agent. Worth reading!

Squeezing Wasted Full Scans out of SQL Server Agent

• by Bob Musser

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

This article by new contributing member Bob Musser shows you how to reduce the amount of scans that SQL Server Agent does against databases. Not for the faint of heart.

VSLive Interview with Tom Rizzo and David Campbell

• by Additional Articles

• ASPToday

• News
• Uncategorized

An interview where they discuss their data strategy and integration with Visual Studio .Net

Getting Rid of Excessive Files and Filegroups in SQL Server

• by Chad Miller

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

Although there are legitimate reasons for using filegroups, Chad Miller recently encountered a situation where they were used too much. He shows you in this article why and how to remove excessive filegroups.

Autoclose for Databases

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

In SQL Server 2000, there is a database option to close the database when it is not in use. Every wonder what this is? Or when it should be used? Steve Jones takes a look at this seldom used option.