http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged T-SQL, Configuring, Performance Tuning and Scaling, Monitoring posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)New author! Mike Pearson discusses how auto close was at the root of a performance problem he was troubleshooting, how you can check your servers easily, and discusses why both auto close and auto shrink are bad ideas in a production environment. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/autocloseandautoshrinkjustdont/984/2003/05/05http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/autocloseandautoshrinkjustdont/984/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/