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
RegardsRudy KomacsarSenior Database Administrator"Ave Caesar! - Morituri te salutamus."