I talk briefly about the toll the rest of your short-term responsibilities can take when you immerse your self in valuable training that will pay off in the long run.

I set out to disprove an argument that you can't possibly benefit from both data compression and backup compression.

I felt pretty strongly about some apparent bait & switch by SSWUG.

I talk about several things you can do to know and optimized what's going in and out of your disk.

I talk about creating a view that joins all the possible tables, and suggest that simplification isn't always worth it.