Brent Ozar Unlimited® Weekly Links, December 22nd Edition

A breakthrough, a set of disasters, and the best code comments ever. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Kendra's Links Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of the Year You can probably guess what #1 is, but the whole list is pretty amazing. It includes things like data stored in magnetic holograms. SQL Server's Spinlock Backoffs How to find which spinlocks are actually sick. Otter Pups It's the end of the year. You need more pictures of a baby otter in your life. Jeremiah's Links The 80/20 Rule Still Applies Using the Pareto Principle for sizing storage. The Best Data Visualization of 2014 Who made the best looking data this year? Data Sets of Disaster Disaster related data sets, for your querying curiosity. Brent's Links Best Developer Cartoons This week, I'm reviving some great (but closed) Stack Overflow questions with hundreds of answers - starting with the best programmer cartoons. Best Code Comments Hundreds of funny ones. Worst Code Comments They can't all be helpful. Brent tweaks the defaults in Ola Hallengren's maintenance scripts. Kendra teaches you about whitespace, comments, and forced parameterization. Twitter talks about the most confusing words and phrases in SQL Server.  Watch our video on rebuilding and reorganizing indexes in SQL Server. December 30 - Statistics: Beyond Performance January 6 - Make Extended Events Easier with sp_BlitzTrace™ January 13, January 20th, and Beyond - Office Hours Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Subscribe to Our Feed  follow on Twitter | subscribe to our feed | forward to a friend  Copyright © 2014 Brent Ozar Unlimited��, All rights reserved. We're sending you this because you signed up for the BrentOzar.com Community. If you no longer want these community recaps, please unsubscribe. We're all about staying at Inbox Zero too. Our mailing address is: Brent Ozar Unlimited�� 9450 SW Gemini Dr ECM #45779 Beaverton, OR 97008 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences