Very cool feedback, Eirikur. Thank you for taking the time to post those resources.

Shifting gears, I wish there were something I could do to help push you into writing articles and finishing the book you started on the subject of XML and SQL Server. If nothing else, I'd be happy to proof read and test your code, provided that I don't have to load the latest and greatest in SQL Server to run it. Work keeps me hopping and I don't have the time to live on the bleeding edge. 😀

Shifting gears a bit, I can help sweeten the pot with, perhaps, a joint article to determine which column statistics are actually being used by queries so that the rest can be deleted. It's not something new but it isn't a widespread bit of knowledge and it requires some XML interrogation. I'm not sure that the shredder that someone else wrote for this is all that it can be when it comes to performance although it's not absolutely horrible.