Links:

White Papers and MSDN Articles:

SQL Server 2005 Techical Articles

Working with TempDB

Physical Database Storage

SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide

SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Handbook

SQL Server 2005 Failover Clustering White Paper

Implementing Row- and Cell-Level Security in Classified Databases Using SQL Server 2005

Upgrading MSDE 2000 to SQL Server 2005 Express

Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005

SQL Server 2005 Clustering

Knowledge Base Articles:

SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server 2005 logging and data storage algorithms extend data reliability

How to move SQL Server databases to a new location by using Detach and Attach functions in SQL Server

Blogs Articles References:

Page Checksum - Che cosa è il page checksum e come sostituisce il "torn page detection"

Under the covers: IAM chains in SQL Server 2000

Under the covers: IAM chains and allocation units in SQL Server 2005

Fragmentation part 1 - What are records?

Fragmentation part 2 - What are pages?

Fragmentation part 3 - What are extents?

Clustered Index Scans - Part I

Clustered Index Scans - Part II

Clustered Index Scans - Part III

Articles:

DateTime problems:

L'Articolo che spiega il perchè ed il percome del datetime

Trattare le Date con SQL Server

Gestire date ed orari con SQL Server 2000

SQL Server e il formato datetime ISO 8601

SQL Server Agent, Schedulazione e Job:

Con quale account vengono eseguiti gli step di un job di Sql Server 2000?

Full Text Search:

SQL Server Full Text Search Language Features

SQL Server Full Text Search Language Features, Part 2

Integration Services (SSIS)

Integration Services: Performance Tuning Techniques

Blogs:

Official Sql Server Development Team Blogs:

SQL Server Customer Advisory Team

SQL Server Data Engine + CLR Integration Team

SQL Server Express Team

SQL Server Database Engine - Tips Site

SQL Server ISV Team

SQL Server Communication Protocols

Relational Engine Management Team

Query Optimizer Team

SQL Server Protocols

"Unofficial" Sql Server Development Team Blogs:

Michiel Wories, PM on the Managability Team (SMO, sqlcmd, etc)

Mosha's Analysis Services Info

Kirk's Integration Services Info

Michael Rys on all things XML

John Gallardo, on XML in SQL Server 2005

XML insight from Shankar

Slava's excellent SQLOS info

Rushi's SSB and other interesting stuff site (Service Broker)

Remus's SSB Info (Service Broker)

Have Data Will Travel (Service Broker)

Data works, All things data access related

Ken Henderson's deeply sql-geeky blog

Cihangir Biyikoglu's info from ISV land

Ian's Query Plan guidance

TempDB and other cool info from Wei

Bruce Prang on the tools

Bob's cool Reporting Services info

Sleazy SSRS Hacks from Chris

Laurentiu Cristofor's blog (PKI)

Tony Rogerson's ramblings on SQL Server