Tony,

It is definitely a community effort. I have been through most of those in the past 7 years as a DBA and it was a community effort just within my organization. Everyone from Hosting Operations, DBA's, Software Developers, Information Security, Individual Business Line Managers to Sr Management was involved. Not easy and not perfect but well worth the effort as things are much easier now and fairly standardized and documented.

The best piece of advice I could give is to just start somewhere. Like you said, start with backups (or better yet restore) policy as I would bet no DBA has been fired for having a good backup policy/system. Then branch out based on need and importance. Finally, would be glad to help out the community.

Thanks

SJ

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