Have to say, the title of this article is hillarious and made me smile for a straight minute.

Thanks Jeff. In your example, I presume everyone would be running around trying to figure out why tempdb was filling up and without 2005's dmvs would find that task somewhat...

I like this article. The struggle you are talking about is very real. I especially agree with the "patience" that is required to bring in process control and stability. Sometimes...

I have worked on large and small DR projects for SQL Server. The very best/coolest was using SRDF/A on Symmetrix and Windows 2003 Cluster. The smallest being transactional replication. SRDF...