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Regan Galbraith
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Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 12:26 PM
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Robert Hermsen (10/27/2008)
a benefit to storing the data is that in lieu of alerting on 80-90 % drive utilization you can alert on % changed. It allows you to catch when suddenly your drive with 3% monthly growth suddenly changes to 15 % quickly shortening your window.
completely agree. The customer I am at makes use of Quest's Capacity Manager, so we get a GUI on top of that data, but a homegrown version can be as good (or better, as it can be built into any alerting system, whereas Cap Man is outside the alerting structure we have here - we can't see a referenece to "alert sent" for example).
Whether using Cap Man, or a similar tool, or a home grown tool - the importance of predicting, and then measuring, data growth is often under-estimated.
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Vivien Xing
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Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 8:59 PM
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The duties seem to be DBA routine/regular tasks. It is nice to list them out and have the problems/changes tracked and documented. A very good and detailed list.
Just curious, if the DBA is not on-call, what do they do in your shop? As my experience, on-call is to face and fix whatever problem comes after the business hours.
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tjaybelt
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Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:55 AM
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Vivien Xing (10/27/2008)
The duties seem to be DBA routine/regular tasks. It is nice to list them out and have the problems/changes tracked and documented. A very good and detailed list.
Just curious, if the DBA is not on-call, what do they do in your shop? As my experience, on-call is to face and fix whatever problem comes after the business hours.
at our shop, we have a series of tasks dolled out to each of us. when not on-call, that dba gets to work on projects or tasks that actually matter.
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rudy - Doctor "X"
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Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:42 AM
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A pretty good article. However things related are more of day-to-day activates that a DBA performs or has performed by automated tasks.
For going on-call I would suggest something more like some of the task I have to perform to prepare for going on-call:
- reviewing the previous weeks DBA callouts
- reviewing the previous weeks turnover minutes for:
- production support
- backups
- network
- resetting the DBA 'hotline' call forwarding to you phone
- changing your cell phone ringing/paging profiles
- daily changing of your work phone to call-forward to your cell phone during off hours
- for Blackberry users
- changing profiles
- changing mail folders forwarded
- attending daily/weekly turnover meeting
- help desk notification for automated tracking systems
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Rudy Komacsar
Senior Database Administrator
"Ave Caesar! - Morituri te salutamus."
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Excellent article ...:)
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