Recently a client of mine was experiencing performance issues with the daily Master Resource Planning (MRP) process run, in particular, not only would it run for extended periods but it would also stop other users from performing their tasks.
The following article from SQL Magazine (The DBA is Alive and Well—Here’s Why) provides a couple of opinions as to why the DBA role is not dead, I would like to add my two cents worth to this discussion.
I recently read the SQL Server Blog article Data-intensive Applications in the Cloud Computing World by Mark Souza, General Manager, Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team and it really drove home the concept that moving applications into the Cloud is not just about moving an application and related database to respective virtual