Kendra Little gives her thoughts on how to identify a good DBA team:
What I learned was not to judge a team by their SQL Server. Some configurations may look problematic, but make a lot more sense when I talk to the team and dig into problems they’re facing.
For instance, there’ve been many times when a team was facing a performance issue, and at first glance their SQL Server looked stupidly underprovisioned in terms of memory. Upon digging into the problem I found that adding more memory wouldn’t solve their particular problem. One size doesn’t usually fit all.
Read on for hints and thoughts.