http://watchitlater.com/blog A reluctant foray into the world of blogging. Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:35:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://watchitlater.com/blog/2008/07/how-to-kill-your-database/ http://watchitlater.com/blog/2008/07/how-to-kill-your-database/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:09:52 +0000 Tom http://watchitlater.com/blog/?p=21 Love these videos on SQL database performance best practices – part 1, part 2 and part 3.

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