Thank you, David!

I understand that all of the categories are important, but is there some sort of "ranking" that I could use as a guideline? In your example, you said that I probably wouldn't want CPU time to go up which I agree. So, I guess in a way, you could rank CPU time as #1 in terms of importance?

I completely understand that there will have to be some sort of give and take. I just want to be certain that my order of importance is correct. By the way, I know I have a LOT to read to improve myself in this area of query tuning.