Database Questions from the Mojave Desert

Brent Ozar takes his show on the road, driving through the scorching desert of Lake Mead National Recreation Area about half an hour outside of Las Vegas. With the temperature well into the triple digits, Brent fields a wide-ranging set of questions covering query plan headaches, monitoring tool reliability, data warehousing strategies, and the realities of working under a difficult manager. It's database wisdom from one of the hottest spots in the American Southwest.