Your Name Here (9/15/2015)
I'd used a private "DBA" database for years until my latest position which involves a large farm of database servers dedicated to a prominent third party ERP software product. Man, I had used that database for maintenance procedures, backup jobs, growth tracking, the works. When I suggested creating one on each of the servers for this purpose I suddenly had a very quiet room and the undivided attention of an angry mob. To paraphrase and summarize the answer: "No."Actually, the long and complete answer: "No." <LOL>
Nice solution, though; good work!
Thank you. This is about my third attempt to reply, we shall see what happens.
Should you ever end up in an environment or situation where there are are no mobs, I would be happy to hear the results. I have used this in environments up to about 2000 servers without much overhead. It is largely set it and forget it. Even on servers with a couple hundred descent sized databases (by number of objects), the DBA database remains pretty small. And like you said it can also be used to handle other DBA related tasks.