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Ben Forta has been blogging about mssql lately, but we shall thank him since it's useful information.
For example, here's a comparison between temp tables and table variables. I always use table variables -- a lot -- and they're quite useful. I never ran into any of the restrictions Ben mentioned, but it's good to know that if I run into any of them, there is an alternative; for example, I never had to Select Into a table variable, but I do see where it can be extremely handy.

Another nice post mentions how to perform case sensitive searches w/o changing the collation for the entire database. As you may know, you may define different collations when creating a database which will indicate the character set and case sensitivity among other properties, but you can use a different collation in run time; I actually did not know that. Ben shows two examples: