How to create Custom Database Role and Manage its permissions

Step by step procedure to create custom database role and how to manage permissions

How to use more than 4GB RAM on SQL Server?

This article describes the procedure to make sure your SQL Server is able to use more than 4GB of RAM, if installed

Resource Governor in SQL Server 2008 - Beware of catches

This article describes the catches in using resource governor of SQL Server 2008 and how to avoid them

How SQL Server Index Statistics works - Part 2

This article demonstrates the real world examples of how SQL Server utilizes the index statistics.

How SQL Server Index Statistics works - Part 1

This article describes the concept of index statistics in SQL Server and how it is used in query optimization.

Selectivity of a Query and how it affects indexing

If you want to understand how selectivity of Query works then read this article.

Cache Efficient Dynamic SQL Queries and how Query Plan Caching works in SQL Server

This article describes how sql server query plan caching works. It gives you working examples of how to write cache efficient dynamic sql queries.