A good Friday topic.

In my current 'Apps team' position, I not only provide SQL support for 8 hardware servers, 8 VM servers and the major applications that may reside on them, but I also support Crystal Reports (Business Objects Enterprise), Access 03/07/10 and a tiny bit of VB.net on Vis Studio 2008.

Fortunately, the SQL side of tasks is mainly server support, maintaining backups, SQL Agent jobs, etc which is an ongoing every morning 15 to 45 minute review. I handle all upgrades for the apps that reside on my servers (maintenance or development?) and have had a big one (not a critical one) going on for about 6 months that because it isn't critical, always seems to get pushed to the back burner when something else jumps up as a perceived crisis.

Then there are the frantic calls from Crystal or Access users asking for assistance with a new/old report or getting a query to do this. Finally there are the VB.net projects that I get to chose, as we have old legacy VB6 code that needs to be updated. I would consider this to be new development work as I'm discovering that VB6 code DOES NOT automatically translate over to VB.Net...much to my chagrin. What fun! I'd say my load is 95/5 on the maintenance/repair/fix this side of the coin.:w00t: