It is interesting to see a discussion on this topic again, based on an editorial I wrote nearly 5 years ago. I had forgotten I had written it. 🙂

jshurak (6/14/2012)

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Excellent write up. I've been looking into implementing this on one of my servers. Would it be helpful to look that the total composition of the plan...

Mhlewis (1/18/2012)

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TravisDBA (1/18/2012)[hr

It must be nice to be at a point in life where you can choose that. and have an extra income to support that decision vis-a-vis your husband....

Thanks for all the thoughful responses so far.

My editorial got edited after I wrote it, and one important part of the message I was trying to get across apparently got deleted. In the original draft of my...

Glad you found the book useful.

I don't think I was a clear in my editorial as I should have been. In regards to the job, I was specifically referring to those DBAs who adamantly follow...

Sorry for the delay in announcing the winner of this contest, but I was out last week traveling. After reviewing the entries, and talking about them to several other DBAs,...

George Hepworth (8/7/2011)

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You left out of your list what I am beginning to think is one of the biggest impediments to writing and publishing technical books, although it is tangentially...

Craig Farrell (8/4/2011)

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Ninja's_RGR'us (8/3/2011)

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Nevermind that part, I had missed the fact that there's 1 row per date where...

Thanks for everyone who has contributed to the contest so far. The goal of the contest was to try an interactive article format with reader feedback on “SQLServerCentral.com Best Practices...

Hopefully you will find the following information useful. I am providing most of the information requested, except the XML execution plans. You will have to work with the graphical execution...

Part of the challenge is asking the right questions. Below is the schema for the four tables used in the four queries (along with their index structure) to help you...

Don't know this answer, but I will ask.

I am not able to answer all of your question, but here is some information that might be useful.

Each node of the cluster has identical hardware and software:

--Two, 2.26Hz Quad...