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This database analyst has handled his IT shop's SQL Servers for two decades, and he's very well respected, says an IT pilot fish on the inside.
"He has a masters degree in IT and many certifications, including SQL Server certification," fish says.
"Unfortunately, he's in his 60s and, though everyone eventually asks him for help in coding and many other projects, our new manager is younger by 20 years and seems to think he's past his prime."
So it's no surprise when the manager hires a consultant to help move an extremely large database that's replicated globally.
Consultant works for weeks detailing all the database's tables and looking at options. When he's finally ready, he calls a meeting to lay out his plan: The system will need to be down for an entire day to insure data is copied to the new server, and all the replicated sites will have to be down during this time, too.