Creating Your Dream Project

• by Christopher Duncan

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Miscellaneous

In this article, columnist Christopher Duncan shows you how to create your dream development project.

What is the search order for Procedures prefixed sp_?

• by James Travis

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Performance Tuning

In this article, James Travis covers a common performance topic of prefixing stored procedures sp_. Does it really slow down performance?

A Sneak Peek at Entegra

• by Brian Knight

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Product and Book Reviews

Recently, the SQLServerCentral.com labs had the chance to get a sneak peak at Lumigents latest creation, Entegra, which is scheduled to ship in the second week in December. Entegra monitors database activity and provides a complete record of access to the data and changes to database structure and permissions.

Move Your Master

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

How often do you move your master database? Hopefully never, but this article looks at an easy technique should you need to perform this trick.

Worst Practice - Not Having An Archive Plan For Each Table

• by Andy Warren

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

We're curious to see what our readers have to say about this one! How many of us have tables accruing data that won't be used and/or isn't of any value? At what point do we get rid of it to free up resources?

Streamlining the Database Server Recovery Process

• by Gregory Larsen

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Disaster Recovery (DR)

Are you tired of manually restoring each database on a new server when the original server has a melt down? Does the manual process seem slow, and prone to keystoke and mouse click errors? Would you like to have those restore scripts automatically built, so you only have to fire them off? Well this article will show you one possible method for speeding up and reducing errors will trying to perform a restore of all databases on a server.

Why Secure the Database?

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Security

You're behind a firewall, you have passwords. Why spend any great amount of time on extra database security? Steve thinks there are a few reasons why in this article.

SQL Server Notification Services Documentation

• by Steve Jones

• MSDN Communities

• Administration

Microsoft has released the "Books Online" equivalent for Notification Services. Browse through and take a look to see if this service is useful to you.

Loading a Series of Flat Files

• by Andy Jones

• SQLServerCentral.com

• DTS

Andy Jones recently faced a requirement to load several flat files on a nightly basis. In this article, Andy Jones shows you how he accomplished this and shows plenty of code!

SQL Server Product Support Life Cycle

• by Additional Articles

• Microsoft SQL Home

• News
• Uncategorized

Microsoft has formally clarified the support life cycles for it's products. See where your products fall in and be sure to plan for upgrades.