SQL Server definitely has some advantages and it has been quite awhile since I used it last (circa 2003) so it would do me well to learn a bit about...

I certainly was taking no offense and honestly appreciate the comment and dialog. I completely agree with your point that someone just getting started could read those tips and...

Before everyone gets too excited in here, those tips were written in the context of the following:

hundreds of thousands of active users

hundreds of gigs of data in play for OLTP...