Joe Sack (@josephsack) of SQLskills.com shows us that we might not always be able to make an accurate correlation between wait statistics and observer overhead, depending on the method being used to observe a system.
Paul White (@SQL_Kiwi) continues his discussion about optimization and how recognizing transformations can help you make better decisions about potential query re-writes.
Erin Stellato (@erinstellato) of SQLskills.com dives into what sp_updatestats is really doing, and why you should avoid relying on it for perpetual maintenance on your SQL Servers.
Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) of SQL Sentry gives some quick advice about SQL Server 2014 CTP1: Plan to install it in its own virtual machine, because at this point it doesn't play well with others.
SQLskills.com's Joe Sack (@josephsack) discusses some of the assumptions people can make when deciding on high availability / disaster recovery solutions they're going to use with SQL Server.
Glenn Berry (@GlennAlanBerry) of SQLskills.com discusses all of the recent hoopla about Database Mirroring being deprecated and what that may mean for Standard Edition customers 6-10 years from now.
SentryOne's Aaron Bertrand (@AaronBertrand) discusses a few additional places to get information useful for decisions about creating new indexes that are suggested as "missing" by various tools.
Paul Randal (@PaulRandal) of SQLskills.com discusses the myth that DROP and TRUNCATE operations are not logged, and shows that this is simply not true.