>>You must be lucky in that your customers listen to you and get the hardware, UPSs and backup systems required to minimize corruption risk. I am not so fortunate. Most of my customers are incredibly cheap and their network systems show it. No software can overcome a business that has an alleged "computer guy" who does their hardware.
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>It's cheaper to have a well installed network and UPS than an SQL license, DBA, and the accompanying hour glass:-). Heck - they are RAID, evun!

You and many of us know that, just try to convince some of my customers of that. On the positive side, I do have many customers within this same franchise that do listen to me, and I never hear from them. Heck, one owner cut off the training I was conducting and sent me home early. He figured out how to "read what was on the screen" to do anything he needed to do. He then informed his staff if any of them could not do the same, they could find employment elsewhere. The only time I hear from him is when I see him at their biannual sales meetings.