I admit to some surprise that our company seems to be the exception with our all-Enterprise setup. Yes, it comes at a price, but I guess the previous DBAs did...

We have an estate of fifteen servers and almost two hundred databases to watch over, and we have Enterprise installed on all systems. It didn't happen right away, it's the...

If I do my job well, nobody knows about it. If I mess up, it's my neck on the line.

It's the peril of the profession.

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