A database is the foundation that enterprise applications are built on. If anything goes wrong with that foundation, everything built on it is affected. Problems take the form of system-breaking errors sometimes, yes, but some issues are more subtle: degrading performance, leaking memory, inefficient data structure, or old hardware, to name a few. Challenges like these steal money, time, and valuable resources, and may go unnoticed for months—which is why a regular database health check isn’t just an option. They’re a necessity.