We currently have a small SQL Server environment that consists of 6 servers running 12 instances of SQL Server 2008 & 2005. Each servers has an instance of SQL Server 2008 and 2005 installed on them. We also have three servers for BI that run SQL Server 2012. We have no development environment, we just create development databases on production SQL Servers. When it comes to administration and maintenance of our SQL environment it has been a DBA by committee approach but now we have decided assign someone that task (me!). We are wanting to a create new SQL Server environment that will be more robust and stable. Is there any documentation that outlines best practices for creating a SQL Server environment? Anything that outlines how you should setup development, staging, and production SQL Server environment and how to move changes from development to production?
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