A lot of data bases will have some version of a slow query log or built in monitoring view, or you'll have a monitoring tool set up yourself to log and aggregate this kind of thing. So let's just start out about, maybe you're the unfortunate person who is running one of these web sites that makes me think about the optimizations that were missed as i wait for the spinning think te lord. And it's your job to figure out what is wrong. Ow, so maybe we could talk about some of the techniques for finding problems with your data base. Let's just start there.