I've run into the same thing: when checking references on what appeared to be a very good candidate, I asked, "would you hire them again?" and they said...
We have an agreed maintenance window - once a month to apply any patches or application fixes. If you took that window away and wanted 99.999% uptime, we wouldn't...
Downtime should include all outages, planned or unplanned. The whole point of an SLA is for setting expectations of users so it should be measured from the perspective of the...
If it was your job to design these tables, would you be tempted to have an end_date_time column that could not be null, and instead substitute a ridiculous future date...
I'm curious how your tools handle changes to the schema once your DB is in production and your tables are populated. What is the process for adding a new column...