Here is the list I compiled. Its quite rudimentary as I did it in about a day) I probably missed a few things off, feel free to add to it:

Monitoring...

This is where it got a bit tricky. I am not a development DBA by any stretch of the imagination. my role is to do the backups, refreshes, performance tuning...

100% agreed. Yesterday was the first time I had heard of their 5 9's target. I laughed hysterically inside my head - our company are using VM's as their "HA"...

Yes, the CIO finally agreed with me that I could not do my job without sysadmin... although for some strange reason the 3rd Party company might still insist on doing...

I love that too... Although I doubt I could even offer my emotional support... maybe my condolences

thanks to all for your replies, I appreciate the additional insight and view from an alternative perspective. Rightly or wrongly, I assumed the CIO knows what a DBA does -...

After trying almost everything, I eventually found the solution.

It appears that, if you change the default datafile locations, this is recorded in the registry. So I searched the registry for...