http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged T-SQL, Performance Tuning, SQL Server 7, 2000, Monitoring posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)One of the biggest performance gains built into SQL Server is the stored procedure. In this article by Brian Kelley, he shows you how to fully utilize, debug and monitor the caching of such objects. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/procedurecache/591/2004/11/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/procedurecache/591/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/One of the biggest performance gains built into SQL Server is the stored procedure. In this article by Brian Kelley, he shows you how to fully utilize, debug and monitor the caching of such objects. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/procedurecache/591/2004/11/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/procedurecache/591/This article describes the ActivityTrace7 job that puts blocking and performance data into a trace file for further analysis. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/283/2001/06/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/283/