http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged Database Design, Performance Tuning and Scaling, SQL Server 7, 2000, Basics posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Disk space is getting cheaper everyday. Why should you worry about the amount of space your data is consuming? This article by Neil Boyle presents some great reasons why you should be concerned. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/savingspace/208/2003/02/21http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/savingspace/208/The strength and holy grail of relational databases lies in the very name: relations. Microsoft has put a good deal of intelligence and cunning into query optimizations, caching, indexing and execution plans to make the process of finding related records even smoother and faster. This small article, however, will try to shatter the very sacred notion of relational databases. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/relationaldatabasewithoutrelations/733/2002/07/29http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning+and+Scaling/relationaldatabasewithoutrelations/733/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/