http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Miscellaneous, Monitoring, Replication 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/Andy says Windows Authentication "is bad". What? That's not what Microsoft says! Heck, that's not even what we say! Everyone knows NT authentication is the way to go. Then again, when was the last time Andy wrote an article that wasn't worth reading?! Read the article, rate it and add a comment - and automatically be entered in a drawing for a copy of SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning donated by Microsoft Press. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/thecaseforsqlloginspart1/714/2002/06/25http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/thecaseforsqlloginspart1/714/