I used to be a Network Administrator for a company with 300 seats, plus as a software
developer I had admin rights to all the company's MS SQL Server databases. Unclogging
the network and resolving database gridlock were 2 areas I excelled in there.
If you'd like to give me developer access, I could take a look around and try to see
what keeps slowing us down. I guess it's a lot of different things, many of which
Brion has already identified.
But the fact that restarting the machine always speeds thing up again indicates the
probable presence of one or more as-yet unidentified problems.
Of course, as a "developer" I would be ever scrupulous about the
"rules" -- I would absolutely not use developer rights to, say, win a POV battle
or unilaterally ban an obnoxious user.
Ed Poor
"Opinions and proposals expressed in this letter are mine personally, and are
unrelated to any aims or policies of my employer."