The document discusses various sources of waste and performance issues in the NETS database, along with improvements made over two years to address these issues. Key sources of waste included unused indexes, inefficient index placement, sparse table blocks from nologging inserts, and excessive temporary work areas from sorting. Improvements such as SQL tuning, rebuilds to increase block density, and compressed objects helped reduce waste and contention for storage and processing resources. Ongoing efforts aim to further optimize reliability, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and workload processing.