To be honest this problem doesn't just exist with the lack of a DBA many smaller organisations expect you to perform multiple rolls.

For example in a recent deployment of SharePoint...

I am not a DBA, I am a programmer and have a CS degree. I found that there was very little content on how the code you were writting interacts...

Use SQL server for what it is good at. Storing, retreiving and updating sets of data. Trying to do other operations is why people have to keep upgrading their SQL...

As a developer who has been given the role of DBA in the past the first thing I made very clear to my new job is that I am not...