Of the blog posts we published in 2018, here are the ones that got you talking the most. These comment counts are as of December 17th (writing this post a little ahead of time.)
10. SQL Server Patches for Meltdown and Spectre Attacks , Brent Ozar 26 comments.
9. Index Tuning Week: How Many Indexes are Too Many? , Brent Ozar 26 comments.
8. Stupid T-SQL Tricks, Brent Ozar 31 horrified comments.
7. Troubleshooting Parameter Sniffing Issues the Right Way, Part 1 , Tara Kizer 33 comments on this evergreen topic.
6. The Annals of Hilariously Bad Code, Part 1: Critique the Code , Erik Darling like a public peer code review with 35 comments.
5. What Should We Change About the Data Professional Salary Survey for 2019? , Brent Ozar 35 comments with some great feedback that we incorporated inthis year’s survey.
4. Book Review: Inside SQL Server 6.5 , Brent Ozar 41 comments.
3. Quick Tips for Debugging Large Stored Procedures , Erik Darling 51 comments.
2. Let’s Give the Optimizer a Name , Erik Darling 66 comments. Hard to pick a favorite, but I’d probably go with Sheldon.
1. How to Suck at Database Administration , Tara Kizer with 155 comments, most of which focused on signs that you probably suck as a DBA.