There are several resources devoted to SQL Server. Here are Microsoft's:
If you don't already have it installed, download Books Online right now. See Article #2229 for more information (it has been updated for SQL Server 2000 SP3).
If you don't own the SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit, you can read the chapters online. The CD is more than worth the cover price.
Microsoft SQL Server Community
Related Communities for SQL Server
SQL Server newsgroups (use NNTP, not HTML!)
Microsoft's SQL Server Home
SQL Server 2000 Operations Guide
Some of the TechNet Chat Transcripts might make interesting reading.
FAQ articles in the Knowledge Base
SQL Server resource sites from MVPs:
Darren Green
Dinesh.T.K
Erland Sommarskog
Itzik Ben-Gan
Keith Kratochvil
Kimberly Tripp
Mark Allison
Michael Hotek
Narayana Vyas Kondreddi
Nigel Rivett
Steve Kass
Tibor Karaszi
Umachandar Jayachandran
Vinodk
Other resource / reference sites:
SQL Server FAQ
SQL Server Magazine
T-SQL Solutions
SQL Server Professional
SQLDev.Net
SQLXML.org
NT FAQ (SQL Server department)
SQL Server Central
Database Journal (formerly swynk.com/sql)
CallSQL
SQL Server Examples
SQL Server Central
SQL Server Worldwide Users Group
Professional Association for SQL Server
SQLTeam.com
SQL-Server-Performance.com
And these are the titles on my bookshelf. You might think I am exaggerating, but I took a picture.
Inside SQL Server 2000 (Delaney)
The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals (Henderson)
The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (Henderson)
The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL (Henderson)
Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 (Ben-Gan / Moreau)
SQL 2000 XML Distilled (Williams, Likes, et. al.)
Pro SQL Server 2000 Database Design (Davidson)
SQL Server: Common Problems, Tested Solutions (Pike)
SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit (MS Press)
SQL Server 2000 Reference Library (Iseminger)
SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference (MS Press)
A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers (Beauchemin, Berglund, Sullivan)
Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Dobson)
Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties (Celko)
SQL for Smarties (Celko)
SQL in a Nutshell (Kline/Kline/Hunt)
SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook (England)
SQL Server 2000 Optimization Guide (Fields)
Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server, 6th ed. (Vaughn)
Writing Stored Procedures for Microsoft SQL Server (Shepker)
A Guide to SQL Server Transactional and Snapshot Replication (Cotter)
If you don't already have it installed, download Books Online right now. See Article #2229 for more information (it has been updated for SQL Server 2000 SP3).
If you don't own the SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit, you can read the chapters online. The CD is more than worth the cover price.
Microsoft SQL Server Community
Related Communities for SQL Server
SQL Server newsgroups (use NNTP, not HTML!)
Microsoft's SQL Server Home
SQL Server 2000 Operations Guide
Some of the TechNet Chat Transcripts might make interesting reading.
FAQ articles in the Knowledge Base
SQL Server resource sites from MVPs:
Darren Green
Dinesh.T.K
Erland Sommarskog
Itzik Ben-Gan
Keith Kratochvil
Kimberly Tripp
Mark Allison
Michael Hotek
Narayana Vyas Kondreddi
Nigel Rivett
Steve Kass
Tibor Karaszi
Umachandar Jayachandran
Vinodk
Other resource / reference sites:
SQL Server FAQ
SQL Server Magazine
T-SQL Solutions
SQL Server Professional
SQLDev.Net
SQLXML.org
NT FAQ (SQL Server department)
SQL Server Central
Database Journal (formerly swynk.com/sql)
CallSQL
SQL Server Examples
SQL Server Central
SQL Server Worldwide Users Group
Professional Association for SQL Server
SQLTeam.com
SQL-Server-Performance.com
And these are the titles on my bookshelf. You might think I am exaggerating, but I took a picture.
Inside SQL Server 2000 (Delaney)
The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals (Henderson)
The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML (Henderson)
The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL (Henderson)
Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 (Ben-Gan / Moreau)
SQL 2000 XML Distilled (Williams, Likes, et. al.)
Pro SQL Server 2000 Database Design (Davidson)
SQL Server: Common Problems, Tested Solutions (Pike)
SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit (MS Press)
SQL Server 2000 Reference Library (Iseminger)
SQL Server 2000 Performance Tuning Technical Reference (MS Press)
A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers (Beauchemin, Berglund, Sullivan)
Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (Dobson)
Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties (Celko)
SQL for Smarties (Celko)
SQL in a Nutshell (Kline/Kline/Hunt)
SQL Server 2000 Performance Optimization and Tuning Handbook (England)
SQL Server 2000 Optimization Guide (Fields)
Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic and SQL Server, 6th ed. (Vaughn)
Writing Stored Procedures for Microsoft SQL Server (Shepker)
A Guide to SQL Server Transactional and Snapshot Replication (Cotter)