This was excellent; I appreciate your detailed sources, as well.

Revenant (8/23/2011)

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Higher salaries in IT and software industry come with a price tag, and that is permanent learning. After more that 40 years in the industry, I still spend...

David,

I'm a fan of agile myself-- that being the method I've been working under for the last few years. I wouldn't say that the primary theme of the...

David,

Yup, you're right, on 'begs the question.' Slipped through a couple editors, so good catch.

Thanks,

B

JJ B,

I think you're the close about getting my intent with the piece. As a metaphor, I hope that everyone can recognize at least a piece of themselves at...

Thanks again for all the comments. I'm loving the stories, especially. Glad to know I'm not the only one in this reality!

Thanks for all the positive responses! I wanted to try a more humorous approach to the topic, and I'm glad some folks enjoyed it!

Cheers,

Brad

I appreciate the input on this; The SQL toolspace is crowded, so the more insight, the better.

Thanks for reading my article,

Brad

Perfect. Worked like a charm. Appreciate the help, as I spent a good chunk of time searching in vain elsewhere.

Appreciate the positive feedback, Tim.

I'm liking the idea of deploying a monitoring tool via Citrix, for developer use. Clever.

Thomas,

No worries! Sure, I'd love to hear more. If anything, it's certainly made it clear to me that wait states need to be a part of the...

Thanks for the kind words!

I'm really not any kind of shill for any particular vendor, and was legitimately impressed with the product.

Thomas,

I was talking about the 'Wait-state' feature set, which...

I use this package from MS's DB Operations team as part of my standard build. Have found them very reliable and extendible.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/0/C/40CBAD9A-D990-450B-8785-F288CEBFB448/AITScripts.zip

I've enjoyed reading the thoughtful perspectives here.

For my own contribution, I'm a DBA with ten years experience working in IT. My formal educational background is in biology.

My own experience...