I have two analagies that I have found extremely useful when working on performance issues with non technical folks.

Databases are like legal pads. You can either buy one at...

I think this is the most frustrating part of performance tuning. On a theoretical level an index can make perfect sense, while in practice it can have devastating effects....

My fear is that mastery around a topic will cause you to be useless in every day support of SQL Server. Sure you are great at what SQL Server...

I am not at a stage of life where long hours are to much of a hinderance however I prefer to only have them occasionally. The db's I typically...

we had a perfect experience the other day that should cause some concern for those wanting the cloud. Verizon lost a core router in our area and thus we...

regarding the need to shrink because of dev or qa reasons... those users can learn to use trace flags. I think it should be made difficult. It is...

two words... Joe Satriani.

At least with music that you know it is less distracting than background. The issue is when coupled with a set of Bose Quiet Comfort 2...

i love phone debates\discussions\reviews.

It all comes down to what you want from your device. Blackberry said it best... it isn't about the apps... it is about the web....

understanding it removes the cross platform capabilities that some developers desire but why MS doesn't just build Express into Windows I don't know. They install it with other components...

Another pathway i have seen take a server to it's knees much in the same fashion had to do not with parallelism but with the Auto Update Statistics function running...

OK... so the fact that they make Mini-Zebu's makes everything stressful just seem irrelevant today. I think i want one... I wonder if the city...

I think there are a few points people need to remember...

The Company survived without you before you got there.

The Company will survive if you are on vacation and not reachable,...

unfortunately self responsibility is often lacking. It affects the drinking as well as the coming into the office when you don't feel well. Everyone knows their limits....

Great topic. I had to dig through all of my fearful stats days to do trending a few years back with SSRS 2005 as we were not going to...

Let me start by saying I cannot claim responsibility for authoring either of these scripts... nor can I tell you who did as I didn't note where I found them...