http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged Database Design, Basics, SQL Server 7, 2000, Miscellaneous posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Two weeks ago Andy started his wildly successful series on Worst Practices. This week he continues that series discussing why failing to use primary keys and clustered indexes are worst practices. Agree or disagree, read the article and join the discussion. One thing you'll have to admit, reading an article by Andy is a lot more interesting than reading Books Online! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/worstpracticesnotusingprimarykeysandclusteredindex/488/2008/05/09http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/worstpracticesnotusingprimarykeysandclusteredindex/488/Two weeks ago Andy started his wildly successful series on Worst Practices. This week he continues that series discussing why failing to use primary keys and clustered indexes are worst practices. Agree or disagree, read the article and join the discussion. One thing you'll have to admit, reading an article by Andy is a lot more interesting than reading Books Online! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/worstpracticesnotusingprimarykeysandclusteredindex/488/2008/05/09http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/worstpracticesnotusingprimarykeysandclusteredindex/488/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/Two weeks ago Andy started his wildly successful series on Worst Practices. This week he continues that series discussing why failing to use primary keys and clustered indexes are worst practices. Agree or disagree, read the article and join the discussion. One thing you'll have to admit, reading an article by Andy is a lot more interesting than reading Books Online! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/worstpracticesnotusingprimarykeysandclusteredindex/488/2008/05/09http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/worstpracticesnotusingprimarykeysandclusteredindex/488/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/Last week Andy started a discussion of the various ways you can reduce the number of round trips to the server. This week he continues by looking at a method he used recently to do client side caching of data to eliminate the round trip altogether. Gotta read it! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/reducingroundtripspart2/588/2002/02/06http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/reducingroundtripspart2/588/