ACinKC (3/11/2013)
Four years ago I was in a Data Admin group that got tired of being called to fix problems in these rogue installs. The Manager got a bright idea and started charging back their time to the development/business group. Once the business-line VP's started seeing very expensive DBA time showing on their monthly cost sheets, the CIO got calls and before long those old systems (one was SQL2000!) were brought up to current specs and the servers were placed under the Data group care. Problems tended to taper off once that happened...
Nice. Thanks for that tip. I will keep it mind. I don't think we have chargebacks that work that way with hours within our department, but I can do something similar by tracking the requests that come in and the hours of my time that they would take up. Something that lets management know that the SQL maintenance for these servers isn't just taking care of itself.
Thanks again,
webrunner
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A SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. He walks up to them and asks, "Can I join you?"
Ref.: http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2009/02/sql-joke.html