Felt like digging this thread. I'm 1 of 2 DBAs and we're on call on an every other month basis. We haven't had an out-of-hours call now in months that has been an SQL problem.

Our issue is, constant application upgrades/patches. We're supporting over 100+ applications across 30 odd Prod instances, and there's at least 12 of these upgrades needing to be done each month.

And now the boss in IT is trying to suck up to the business by saying all upgrades will be done after 9:30pm at night, rather than previously we could start upgrades at 6pm. Everything we script from the db side to pass through the various environments so its pretty fast to deploy but its a real pain as some take 3/4 hours for the apps guys to do the various app side upgrade and they need us on stand-by the whole time if they need a rollback done.