In opera, tragedy or absurdity happens because the characters are incapable of standing back, and making a difficult decision. Instead, at every stage, they just drift towards their fate by taking the easy option. Don't let the same fate befall you, as a DBA.
2014-08-04
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Louis Davidson on why DBAs ought to do one thing, every day, that is scary.
2014-07-07
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As a professional, our knowledge of a given task should extend, at a minimum, one level deeper than is strictly necessary to perform the task. Anything deeper can be left to the ridiculously smart, or obsessive, or both
2014-05-12
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Louis Davidson on the small dreams that DBAs can nurture, each day, to elevate the drudgery of a seemingly banal task into a celebration of purpose.
2014-03-03
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Like Sherlock Holmes, a DBA needs the sound deductive reasoning to pinpoint the root cause of a crime, in amongst a thousand interesting but irrelevant details.
2013-11-18
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Technical debt is frustrating but dealing with it requires patience. Louis Davidson explains why.
2013-09-02
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It is very difficult to pinpoint what ails a server, just by looking at a single snapshot of the data, or to spot retrospectively what caused the problem by examining aggregated data for the server, collected over many months. The answer? Baselines.
2013-07-22
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In this session Louis Davidson, Microsoft MVP, discusses how being observant of the environment you work in can help you make sure that you are aware of the health of your database systems, as well as your career. You can watch the complete webinar here. Answers to any questions asked are further down the page, […]
2013-05-15
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Louis Davidson is willing to bet that a relatively small handful of lazy people have done more for the world than all of the hard working people combined.
2013-03-25
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Louis Davidson explains why DBAs often need a healthy dose of selective, enforced amnesia about the pain of previous failures.
2013-01-07
140 reads
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