http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged Database Design, Basics, T-SQL posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)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/For most DBAs, normalization is an understood concept, a bread and butter bit of knowledge. However, it is not at all unusual to review a database design by a development group for an OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) environment and find that the schema chosen is anything but properly normalized. This article by Brian Kelley will give you the core knowledge to data model. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basic+Querying/normalization/584/2003/01/13http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basic+Querying/normalization/584/Binary data can be stored as integers in a table. This article explains how to query an integer field to return the bits represented by the integer. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basic+Querying/queryresponse/717/2002/06/28http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basic+Querying/queryresponse/717/This article demonstrates how to store checkbox results as integers in a database...perfect for surveys! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basic+Querying/storingresponses/718/2002/06/27http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Basic+Querying/storingresponses/718/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/