I’m a novice dba but with 20 years programming experience. It was a pleasure working with Pinal Dave, he steered me away from advanced areas where I could get myself into trouble. He helped estabish a baseline of best practices in a few short hours. Now the burden is upon me to dig deeper. He was helpful explaining complex system in a patient, calm manner and I knew he could be trusted. He saved me hours of frustration pointing out that things I had read on the internet, although once true that are no longer are useful for the newer versions of Sql Server. The scripts he shared look simple but achieve great results for your database and came from years of hard won effort and testing on his part and from others , I’m sure. He help me breathe new life into a tired database. Is it perfect, no, are all my scripts clean, no, but he pointed me in the right direction and now I have the great satisfaction of improving the performance of my system and avoiding serious mistakes. Thanks again.
