Help, my database is corrupt. Now what?

Found a good article on SSC about database corruption by Gail Shaw:

"What to do when the database is corrupt.

1. Don't panic
2. Don't detach the database
3. Don't restart SQL
4. Don't just run repair.
5. Run an integrity check
6. Afterwards, do a root-cause analysis"
   

Don't have a corrupt database, but still want to play in the sandbox? Click here and here for a couple of ways to corrupt your database. (Don't do this to production data!)

And if all else fails, there's a product called Recovery for SQL Server to help fix your files.

SQL Server Execution Plans

Here's a link on SSC to a free PDF download of Grant Fitchley's "SQL Server Execution Plans", which is, funnily enough, about how to interpret and act upon an execution plan in SQL Server. "Every day, out in the various SQL Server forums, the same types of questions come up again and again: why is this query running slow? Why isn't my index getting used? And on and on. In order to arrive at the answer you have to ask the same return question in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? " – Grant Fritchey

Database Space Capacity Planning

Good article on "Database Space Capacity Planning" by Chad Miller, that uses Powershell to query the space capacity of every SQL Server on your network. From his summary: "The need to monitor and forecast database and volume space is a critical task for database administrators. You can use the process described in this article to create a consolidated space forecasting report, which focuses on a "days remaining" metric. In addition, the use of PowerShell to collect data and load into a SQL table as demonstrated in this article, provides a solution you can easily adapt to many database administration problems."