B.3. Monthly tasks
Review and update documentation and scripts as appropriate, ensuring their accuracy and suitability for use in disaster-recovery situations.
Review and plan the implementation of any service packs and/or hotfixes as appropriate.
Conduct capacity planning using the inputs from the weekly baseline-analysis and disk-usage tasks. In addition to using this as a chance to identify upcoming budgetary requirements, this task may also serve as an opportunity to consolidate databases and/or instances for a better performance/resource usage balance.
Conduct "fire drills" to practice recovering from various failure conditions. Ideally these drills are random and unannounced and involve simulated corruption (preferably not on production databases!) ...
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