You are right, RAID 5 is faster for READ, but slower for WRITE than RAID 1. The main reason for RAID 5's "slowness" in writing is because of the transactional...

I believe that may be a typo, as I also found this in BOL (emphasis added by me):

Data striping (RAID 0) is the RAID configuration with the highest performance, but...

Actually, RAID 5 is not the correct answer. RAID 1 is. The problem with RAID 5 for transaction logs is that, except in the event of a recovery or rollback,...

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Uh, from BOL:

When sending messages from Transact-SQL procedures, triggers, batches, and so on, use the RAISERROR statement instead of xp_logevent. xp_logevent does not call a client's message handler or set...

Statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics --Dr. Harrington

I used to have that same opinion actually but then I had a conversation with someone who has been in software development for several years. My feelings haven't changed, mind...

Well written article and several good points.

One question: Can you get my IT Director to read it?

Seriously, true DR/BC shouldn't be one...

You are correct, it is part of the c2 auditing. I had to look it up online and in BOL myself because I had never heard of it. Look up...