http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Administering, SQL Server 7, 2000, Indexing posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Do you use the maintenance plans or hate them? Wish they would do more? Curious about how they work under the hood? Cmon, you gotta read this one! Trust us, it's not another "how-to" article! Well, maybe just a little bit! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sqlmaintenanceplans/663/2005/03/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sqlmaintenanceplans/663/A monster book at 980 pages, it's written in 'how-to' format and has a ton of good material. Andy gave it the once over for us and reports back - see what he thinks! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsql2000fastanswers/959/2003/04/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsql2000fastanswers/959/Andy sits down with an entry level book to see if he should use it at work as a teaching aid. Did he like it? Should you buy it? Read the review now! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsqlserver2000programmingmspress/694/2002/06/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsqlserver2000programmingmspress/694/Andy did "Under the Covers" last week, what the heck will it be next week? Read this article to see how maintenance plans update statistics, rebuild indexes, and remove free space from your databases. Add your comments to the article, maybe even a suggestion or two for better titles! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/maintenanceplansbehindthescenes/693/2002/05/27http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/maintenanceplansbehindthescenes/693/In this follow up article Andy looks at how maintenance plans report errors and how they actually accomplish what they do. A little snooping with Profiler reveals all! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sqlmaintenanceplansunderthecovers/686/2002/05/21http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sqlmaintenanceplansunderthecovers/686/Do you use the maintenance plans or hate them? Wish they would do more? Curious about how they work under the hood? Cmon, you gotta read this one! Trust us, it's not another "how-to" article! Well, maybe just a little bit! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sqlmaintenanceplans/663/2005/03/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sqlmaintenanceplans/663/We all know what the ideal application design environment is for building a database back-end: an experienced DBA takes inputs from end users and developers and creates the database design in order to support the application being developed. But in reality, we don't get the opportunity to do application design like this very often. This article covers how to quickly find and fix problems in a design. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/designoversight-preliminaryreview/414/2001/08/20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/designoversight-preliminaryreview/414/