yes...  the bigger concern is valid.  So Dev is in India and Palo Alto and Ops is in Dallas. Lets just say, there is very little communication between the two.  Dev likes to find shiny new toys to build new apps on.  So at the time when they deployed this app, Mongo was the hot new DB, thus now we have Mongo in our Production environment.  Trying to keep things positive it has exposed me to other technologies and expanded my skill set.  It has also reinforced my fondness for SQL Server in the enterprise.  With the open source movement, "free" isn't always "free".  Just because it's "free" you still have to support it and most of the time its trying to find scripts, trolling community forums or develop you own process to manage this "free" database.  

Michael
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