For those of you lucky enough to be able to go to the PASS conference in Seattle this week, I have some advice (which you may take graciously or throw aside with contempt - up to you): try not to learn too much. The great thing about the PASS conference is that there are so many sessions, so many great speakers and so many topics that you are ...

You rock Alberto. Pretty weasely of them to take it out of 2010. Apparently MS assumes that data modeling should only happen at the Visual Studio level now? Sigh...

To whoever manages SQL Server DBAs\developers\BI specialists: Yesterday afternoon at PASS I stuck my head into a presentation Kevin Kline was giving on end-to-end performance monitoring/tuning. He had reached the point where he was starting to talk about wait stats and asked the question ''Who here is familiar with wait stats?'' I saw one hand in ...

Very nice, I hope the advice is heard...

Another great post. I hate it when people focus on numbers without knowing what they mean!

Nice Johnathan, this is definitely an item of confusion out there. And unfortunately people tend to be very religious about what they think is "how it works".

A very wise and sagacious post as usual. I find the same thing (the misconsception amongst active DBAs) with TRUNCATE or minimally logged transactions altogether. Hey, that would make a great 2-3 hour talk. That or hobts (Sorry Kalen, couldn't resist - don't blacklist me!).

I too have a client doing this, and there's far too much work spent trying to get the most out of each GB. To be fair, their SAN vendor advised them to set things up this way....sigh..

I'm sorry Louis, that's a drag. Been there, gotten low scores like that... Sadly (and I mean that), I think that when people go to presentations they want 2 things - 1) Something pithy they can immediately take to their work and make a big splash and 2) something directly pertaining to the work they do (context). This of course rules out more ...

oh and dmmaxwell, I've that - I'm going to include that in every system I build from now on... :)