Yes, I've heard of that book... and it's a common issue where dev's are doing DBA work. I've taught many devs the SQL Admin courseware mostly because they're in a small enough shop that they can't depend upon a dedicated DBA to do that stuff for them.

>Thanks for the info. It does sound like we are thiking a little too cautiously. If other developers are handling it well, we should be able to.
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>It's funny: Whil's latest ISC newsletter addresses the same subject, noting a book (THE HANDBOOK FOR RELUCTANT DATABASE
>ADMINISTRATORS by Josef Finsel) that helps developers do DBA work.