I read a very interesting post on Kimberly Tripp's blog which was about indexing, but she had a very interesting set of requirements for good indexing that I think apply to everything when designing, tuning, backing up, etc., any database. What strikes me the most are 1) and 2) - how can you tune any sort of system if you don't really know ...

This re-post from my Applied Team System blog (which was a repost from my old SQL Server Central blog) was inspired by James Luetkehoelter's Agile Development and the ''DBA'' post a few days back. I'll have more to say about database developers, agile methodologies, and the need for a DBA in posts to ...