• Good comments, and good way of thinking about things. It certainly got me thinking...

    My takeaway is that it's important to not become complacent regarding our priorities and the methods we use to evaluate those priorities. Often times there are multiple factors, both internal and external, that affect our priorities, and the way we work.

    That being said, in order to truly evaluate what's important, we need to truly understand the cost of our actions. For example, in deciding not to back up or reindex every night in order to save energy must be balanced against the cost of not doing so (e.g. in terms of performance). Considering this specific example, it would be interesting to calculate what the actual savings, in terms of energy consumption, would be for altering the backup/reindexing strategy. It would also be interesting to see the benefit in terms of a better end-user experience in doing these things, and at what point (if any) that experience begins to degrade due to the altered strategy.

    Best regards,
    -- John.

    John Hoegy
    Technical Specialist