Some mid-level manager somewhere talks to a consultant, and next thing you know they’ve got SharePoint running on a desktop somewhere. (Always seems like the desktop is hidden under a desk, too – need to start calling these things deskbottoms.)
Weeks and months go by, and executives start getting excited about all the pretty charts and graphs. Receptionists start saving files in it. Then it’s only a matter of time before the mid-level manager comes running into the DBA’s cube screaming because somehow the server got borked or a file got deleted, and he needs your help restoring the database.
You did back it up, right?
After all, it’s a SQL Server, and that’s your job, right?
Somehow, you save their bacon, so now the manager hands the server over to you. Next, the head honcho is standing behind you asking why you implemented it on a single machine, why it takes so long to back up, and why security isn’t configured right. Even though you had nothing to do with this whole debacle, everybody’s looking to you for answers.
On Wednesday at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific, 1500 GMT, I’m doing a SQL Server & SharePoint webcast with Doug Davis of Quest about why DBAs need to pay attention to SharePoint and what they need to learn first. We’ll give a brief runthrough of Quest’s products for Sharepoint, too.
If you’ve got SharePoint questions you’d like to see covered in the webcast, drop me an email at Brent.Ozar@Quest.com, and we’ll be taking questions over Twitter during the webcast too.
