http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Administering, Stored Procedures, SQL Server 7, 2000 posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Attaching and detaching databases is old hat these days right? Do you know how to reattach a database that has more than 16 files? Or do you know what happens if you try to reattach a database that had two log files but one is missing/deleted? And even if you know the answer to that - do you know how to fix it without restoring from backup? Maybe it's not ALL old hat just yet! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/attachanddetachagain/656/2006/06/23http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/attachanddetachagain/656/Do you know the difference between a login and a user? What's the best way to add them; Enterprise Manager, T-SQL, or SQL-DMO? In this beginner level article Andy demonstrates how to use all three methods to add logins and users and offers his view of which is the best technique. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/loginsusersandrolesgettingstarted/514/2005/09/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/loginsusersandrolesgettingstarted/514/Mindy explores the metadata stored in SQL 2000 to show you how to produce a simple and useful data dictionary! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/2005/02/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/One of the biggest performance gains built into SQL Server is the stored procedure. In this article by Brian Kelley, he shows you how to fully utilize, debug and monitor the caching of such objects. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/procedurecache/591/2004/11/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/procedurecache/591/This article by Simon Galbraith (from Red Gate software, maker of SQL Compare) discusses migrating changes from development to staging, QA, and on to production. If you've never seen the need for a schema compare tool (Steve Jones!), this is worth reading.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/982/2003/05/06http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/982/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/Do you know the difference between a login and a user? What's the best way to add them; Enterprise Manager, T-SQL, or SQL-DMO? In this beginner level article Andy demonstrates how to use all three methods to add logins and users and offers his view of which is the best technique. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/loginsusersandrolesgettingstarted/514/2005/09/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/loginsusersandrolesgettingstarted/514/Do you get tired of reviewing each SQL Agent notifications nightly to determine which SQL Agent jobs failed? Is there a significant number of SQL Agent job notifications that it takes a while to review each? Here is an alternative that allows you to have a single email report of all job failures. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/failed_jobs/803/2002/09/17http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/failed_jobs/803/This article shows you one of the most time saving stored procedure built into SQL Server and then shows you how you can modify it to affect additional objects like triggers. For example, after this article and the code in the article, you'll be able to disable every trigger in your system in one line of code. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sp_msforeachworker/711/2002/06/17http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/sp_msforeachworker/711/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/Attaching and detaching databases is old hat these days right? Do you know how to reattach a database that has more than 16 files? Or do you know what happens if you try to reattach a database that had two log files but one is missing/deleted? And even if you know the answer to that - do you know how to fix it without restoring from backup? Maybe it's not ALL old hat just yet! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/attachanddetachagain/656/2006/06/23http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/attachanddetachagain/656/Mindy explores the metadata stored in SQL 2000 to show you how to produce a simple and useful data dictionary! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/2005/02/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/datadictionaryfromwithinsqlserver2000/607/One of the biggest performance gains built into SQL Server is the stored procedure. In this article by Brian Kelley, he shows you how to fully utilize, debug and monitor the caching of such objects. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/procedurecache/591/2004/11/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/procedurecache/591/Ever have a large batch of scripts you need to run? It takes a while if you have to open each one in Query Analyzer and execute it. One of our readers proposed an alternative - take a look the small app Andy Warren wrote to make doing this task a breeze. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/scriptrunner/292/2001/06/14http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/scriptrunner/292/