http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Capacity planning posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)It's very important to capture trends of the sizes of your SQL Server 2005 database because it allows you to plan for future space needs, notice types of problems, and plan for time periods of heavy volume. I'll show you the simple method that I use to capture this information.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/64108/2008/08/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/64108/SQL Server makes it very easy for anyone to create a database. However it's worth spending a few minutes thinking about how you plan a database and SQL Server trainer Andy Warren brings us some thoughts on the subject.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Capacity+planning/63570/2008/08/27http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Capacity+planning/63570/Have you ever been asked for information you couldn't provide because you didn't have an historical monitoring tool? Try thishttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/61373/2007/11/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Monitoring/61373/