I normally program by writing the comments/narrative first.  There's several reasons for this.

1. Too many shops issue a vague set of specs. I make that clear in the code.
2. On...

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by  kfries.

Get well soon, Ken.

kevin aka Cujo

My bedrock performance books were initially Neil Gunther and Cary Millsap's tomes. Cary's book on Oracle performance was a breakthrough in performance tuning using wait events and given the number...

Still keep and reread my old "general" performance books as well as ones written 10-15 years ago by various database and OS experts. They really apply to any database/OS even...

This worked with an ex-GF and a boss who lost *over* 200%(!!!) of his team in less than two years. A big tip of the hat to Dan Jenkins, a...