Jeff, I think we must have run into the same consultants. I had one of my clients hire a data warehouse expert that did not know what a star schema was and refused to index any of his tables because it would only slow his system down. They ended up upgrading their SAN to keep their load process down to under a day. :w00t::rolleyes:

Another one was a RBAR process that walked through 124 million rows with a cursor because he thought a set based operation might misplace data because it was "just too much for the database to keep track of." I kid you not.