Improving performance of your .NET and SQL Server database applications

When you have a .NET application talking to an SQL Server database, you will pretty soon start to think about the performance of your application. There are numerous books, web sites and blog posts on this, but this time, I wanted to point you to an official resource on MSDN on this topic.

The page, titled "Improving SQL Server Performance" is part of the Microsoft Pattern & Practices documentation. This document is somewhat old, but the ideas in it are still very much valid.