"Bet you a dollar that you've done one or more of the following: pushed for standardized server names, spent hours writing SQL Server maintenance related TSQL scripts that are SQL Server version independent, campaigned to have your programmers use three part naming in their code, fought for standardized database names across all dev, test and prod instances."

Server name standards - Oh yeah, been there done that for years. The rest? I appreciate the compliment but I'm afraid I'm not a DBA, just a guy who got hooked into fixing problems when the former so-called "DBA"s got stuck, which was far too often. Thankfully we have a real DBA at work now and my headaches have been greatly reduced.

My biggest push lately has been to get the programmers to use CNAMEs instead of FQDNs, or much worse NETBIOS names - makes things SO MUCH EASIER when a SQL server goes 'poof' and joins the dead kit pile.

BTW - I don't suffer from OCD, I suffer from CDO. It's just like OCD but the letters are in the right order 😀