This book is written for Database Administrators or people that manage Database Administrators in worst case scenarios. What do you do if your environment is failing? What if your security is non-existent? What if you have no backups? What if your performance is terrible What if everything is going wrong? Where do you start? What is your highest priority? What do you do to get everything under control? This book will lead you through the steps to stabilize and secure your environment and cover such topics as: How to analyze your environment and create a plan to stabilize your environment. What are the duties and responsibilities? What tasks should you be doing frequently and what tasks should you be doing periodically? What tasks are condition based? How many DBAs do you need for your environment? What is the cost savings for your DBAs? Implementing automated database health checks. Implementing database best practices. Implementing capacity management. Implementing performance monitoring.