Unlike Tom, I’m not in the habit of substituting “disk” for the original non-problem, but here goes:
9 Database Problems that Are NOT Related to Disks
- Sloppy database design
- Sloppy TSQL code
- Legacy code
- Inconsistent naming conventions
- Superfluous comment blocks!
- Dynamic queries
- Dirty reads
- Parallel execution
- Linked servers
Gimme more in the comments!