David Reed (2/23/2009)

Bonus points for anyone...

Probably pretty close, Steve.

My guess'd be that the full toolset is something approximating to "whatever Oracle sell to interact with their database" plus "the most in-demand third party tools written...

Thanks for the kind comments, JJ B. Good example, too; it's exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about. A little bit of initiative to provide a benefit far...

Thanks for the responses so far.

@daniel-2, you're right that quite a few of the ideas we have may well often fall by the wayside. However, it costs nothing to have...

Sadly, I don't think we're up to the challenge. Not because we're unable to agree a set of guidelines, but because we've no power to enforce them.

All the examples Brad...

Personally, I'd start by making a list of all the duties that fall to your company's whole DBA team, then simply remove the ones you wouldn't think appropriate to leave...

Michael Valentine Jones (1/26/2009)

Ross McMicken (1/26/2009)[hr

From what I've read, this is mostly a call center workers issue. They seem to get the worst of it from all sides - management...

Seems like this'll end up with long lines of finger-pointing.

In the UK, a driver is automatically at fault if they drive into the back of another road user (unless that...

To anyone concerned with the number of responses on this thread, I'd offer a thought. There's not one suggestion yet that concerns SQL Server's ability to efficiently, stably and reliably...

Excellent. Good article. Pity it was too late for me to have used.....

Agreed. Has anyone else looked at the calculation necessary to work out Easter? I had to write one a few years back...

Platform independence.

It'd be great to have the choice between various flavours of various operating systems.

Well, if President Obama's phone is anything like any of the Windows Mobile devices I've seen, I'd say it'll be very secure indeed. I've not seen too many of them...

You might also want to check out one of the more useful but less well-known Microsoft utilities called LinkD, which is part of the Windows Server resource kit downloads. Basically,...

Hey, that misquote button...