I know of a handful of applications that are designed to help you administer your infrastructure from a mobile device. I have tried a few but truthfully the last thing I want to do from my Blackberry is actual work. Responding to emails and making phone calls is one thing, but the thought of trying to examine a query plan on a 2-inch by 2-inch screen is just not appealing. At least, not to me. Perhaps this is a result of my having multiple monitors in my cubical for the past six years, going from that much real estate down to a tiny screen is a huge downgrade.
But what about you? The question for this week is: who wants to administer their servers from their phone?
And I do not consider an application that lets me bounce the SQL Agent from my phone to be something that is even worth discussing. To me, at least, administration of my enterprise means more than bouncing a service remotely. But perhaps our shop is more complex than others. The majority of my time is spent either at work or at home, and both of those locations would not require me to use a mobile device to solve an issue at work.
And during those times I actually get to leave the house with my family the absolute last thing I want to do is run sp_who from my Blackberry. It’s bad enough I check the damn thing every five minutes to see if Chief O’Hara is texting me again because he needs help figuring out where he left his car keys.