http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Miscellaneous, Monitoring, Indexing, Performance Tuning and Scaling posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)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/This book from Microsoft Press has a lot of good information that will help you do capacity planning and performance tuning. Is it worth buying though? Andy just finishing reading it and writing the review, see what he thinks! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/reviewofsqlserver2000performancetuning/673/2002/05/03http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/reviewofsqlserver2000performancetuning/673/