OK, so finally I'm getting the Configuration Management portion of the responsibilities here, which basically means I'm responsible for doing code/DML deployments from our development environment to our test environment to our production environment. The guy who's been doing it has a very nice checklist and some documentation on how to get it done.
If you've got a checklist, you've got a process that can be automated.
So I'm automating the whole process. I've long been of the opinion that my primary responsibility as a DBA is to automate myself out of a job. Which means reliable,...