A 5 part blogpost about the performance of a select statement done with ADO.Net using inline sql, and stored procedures (even some dynamic sql) and then nHibernate to get the same results. But this one has an alternate ending.
Idera has a new FreeWare version of their SQLsafe tool for backup and recovery of SQL Server databases. They've also added freeware versions of their performance monitoring tool and are preparing more free tools...
The Database Publishing Wizard makes it easy to generate T-SQL to export your schemas, procedures, and data from a database, or to upload it directly to supporting hosters...
The Database Publishing Services are a set of ASP.NET web services hosters can deploy to make it simple for customers to deploy SQL Server databases.