It sounds like you may have already come across some of his information, but Ben Miller (@dbaduck) gave a presentation at our SQL Saturday much along these lines. Here's a link to the presentation and content, hopefully it helps.
http://sqlsaturday.com/viewsession.aspx?sat=222&sessionid=13897
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