In the first post of this series, I explained the bin-packing problem and established a baseline solution. The second post investigated ways to increase the packing efficiency. In none of these posts did I pay particular attention to performance – and frankly, it shows. Performance of all solutions presented thus far sucks eggs. Time to see what ...

Greg Linwood, a fellow SQL Server MVP, has started a series of articles in which he attempts to prove that having a clustered index on each table is not a good practice. However, he has failed to include the effects of fragmentation into account, so I decided to run some tests for myself. One of those test had rather upsetting ...