If you've been around a while, you tend to do things the way you first learned how to do them.  This can turn you into an ''old timer'' whose oblivious to new and better ways to do things that have appeared in the newer releases of the technology.   Take measuring log space, for example.  If I wanted to find out how much log space ...

I find that auto_update statistics in SQL Server is a really good thing.  Without it, many third-party applications would simply fall over from lack of preventative maintenance.  With it, they are able to run for extraordinarily long periods of time without really needing a full-time DBA to check up on the databases.   Having said ...