For years I’ve been trying to point out to my organization that my efforts at archiving have met a stone wall. That is, I tell the business that we need to archive this stuff and they all nod their collective heads and agree that this is a fearsome problem that someone should do something about.

Then they implement new projects and devote money to building new distribution centers and more resources are turned to other, higher priorities. I understand that restraining database growth is not a high priority. That’s fine. The business sets these priorities and they can’t all be critical all the time.

Unfortunately, one of my numerous bosses recently had to go to the president to ask for nearly half a million dollars form more disk space. The president pointed out that the entire need for the request is IT’s fault because someone hasn’t been archiving like they should have.

And its true. Its exactly what I’ve been saying for years, but this time it came from the guy who signs the checks. I’m not in any trouble for not doing enough, but it will clearly come down to me to put together a plan to address the growth of our database. In addition to trying to finalize my efforts to get Sales and Distribution archiving in to production I’m going to have to do a comprehensive review of where all our data is and how to remove it, store it and access it.

I didn’t really NEED another responsibility but there’s nobody else here who can do it. Its also an opportunity to increase the visibility of my accomplishments.

This is the most positive way I can look at it.

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