Greg Rahn's Pithy Tweets

Today I was reminded, via some Direct Messages with Greg Rahn [blog|twitter], about some of his more...incisive tweets. In our discussion, I described them as pithy; after confirming the definition, it was apropos.

concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams...
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Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief; Concise and full of meaning; Tersely cogent; Of, like, or abounding in pith
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pithiness - conciseness: terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words
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I guess tweets and their brief nature is the definition of pithy...

I've been threatening to keep a page for his pithy tweets and I've finally gotten around to it.

There are some meetings where I'd love to implement the Twitter 140 character limit. Some people talk so much and say so little.
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That's a very ignorant statement. FUD! RT @Storagezilla: @daniel_eason ...but the SAN isn't the bottleneck it's RAC locking that kills I/O.
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He then goes on to have fun with @storagezilla...I'll leave that for you to find.

Note to co-workers: It's probably best to put your mis-printed Turbo Tax forms in the Secure Document Destruction Bin. Ya think?!?!?
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I'm always amazed people can make database performance recommendations not having analyzed any database performance data about the problem.
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@CaryMillsap It's just that it works best to do experimentation *before* implementation. The hindsight method: mess it up early...
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The metaphor I used the other day on this topic: If your golf game sucks, would buying the most expensive clubs change that? Probably not.
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The amount of performance left on the table is often orders of magnitude larger than any dbms platform could possibly provide.
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It's depressing that so many IT shops invest so much in evaluating database platforms but fail to invest in engineering good data design.
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@merv: Sybase IQ just delivered a record non-clustered TPC-H. [This "record" is only non-clustered + Linux + x86. Nice filter criteria!]
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Experienced a page from the book of @mnorgaard today: We Do Not Use Our Brains. Doing so would make us look bad and that would not be good.
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What I learned today: Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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One can't load data into a database faster than it can be delivered from the source. Database systems must obey the laws of physics!
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They told me I can not say "Listen to me now and believe me later" nor "You would think that would be the best way, but you'd be wrong"...
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Of course there are more and of course Mr. Rahn is not the only one out there with fun and pithy tweets...but I found them fun and funny so I thought I would share. You can follow Mr. Rahn here.