I speak from experience of my own place of work! We failed to take a proper handle on regular DBA work and have spent the last 6 months fixing and implenting a raft of regular checks (undesirable growth/shrink settings, upfront file size allocation, fragmentation checks and fixes etc). It's amazing how much you need to do to keep on top of things - and I would like to thank a whole host of folk who's useful postings we pilfered from various web sites. The internet is a great thing 🙂

After all the dust has settled though I am much more confident (and comfortable) with our setup now.