• Document your servers, including provisioning (prod/QA/test/dev), version, patch-level, etc., in a table. I have a database called "DBA" that I use for that kind of thing.

    Comes in useful pretty regularly. Especially when it comes time to audit licensing.

    - Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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