David;

During December of 1998 I attended the SQL Server 7.0 Kick Off, and Steve Ballmer made this statement concerning the requirement for a SQL Server 7.0 DBA. “One of the features of SQL Server 7.0 is no Administrator is required”.

I am not sure if that is a Microsoft Corporate policy or a marketing point. However, we find that the product does not take care of itself.

Tom