I recorded an Office Hours stream answering a bunch of your questions quickly, but…I forgot to turn on my microphone, so the video only had the sound effects:
Oops.
So here are the questions in text form instead:
Q: 22DBA: what performance recommendation you see people give all the time but it actually doesn’t work
Lowering fill factor server-wide. They somehow think that making your table larger will make things go faster.
Q: Not the Licensing Police But….: I work for a company that has 18 SQL Servers (mix of Standard and Enterprise) that I know are not licensed.