Great comments, thank you all for reading and participating!

Blandry, I was struck in particular by your comment and I'll think on it more. I do wish DBA were more well...

Good!

I agree on getting bad news out and done quickly. Prickly boss or not, waiting seldom makes it better. I'm a big fan of scrum, it's a simple way to...

I'm curious how successful you all have been making businesses cases for things that are a harder sell - say upgrading from SQL2000 to SQL 2008 or so. Certainly it...

It's good to see some/most mostly agreeing with the mundaneness! Of course, the ones that don't are the ones I worry about, the ones who think every day at work...

Jeff, I think the corollary to your point is that if you get a bill for something each month, you're more likely to manage it! Plenty of ways to do...

Lutz, totally agree that security is a concern, especially if the physical implementation of the cloud is in a different country. Not arguing that it fits all cases, just that...

March seems like a long time ago!

Richard, that was well worth sharing. I'll be thinking on that idea some more!

Thanks for commenting, at least someone read it!

I'm torn between Service Broker and missing indexes being shown in the graphical plan. The latter, whether you know how to tune or not, is a real time saver. No,...

Joe, anything can be done to excess. The piece that interests me is about planning for constant change in people. We need to make it cookie-cutter to a degree, yet...

I'm in favor of being candid, but also open to taking a chance on an interview. For a first interview that doesn't require extensive travel I'd be willing to go...

Thanks for the comments!

I've always used my phone first and most for email pruning, deleting junk and doing the quick replies that keep my desktop inbox manageable - great way to use 5...