December 17, 2021 at 3:39 pm
How's everybody? Wishing a good 2022
Back at ya.
Mine has started good already. I received a significant bonus, and was put on some kind of quarterly bonus plan moving forward.
Michael L John
If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
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December 17, 2021 at 3:47 pm
Heh... mine has started off with a bit of a "well that sucks" factor. Whole new time-keeping system where they want me to categorize virtually every aspect of what I do as a "hybrid" DBA. They originally wanted me to do things like keep track of the time I spent on index maintenance by project/application/DB. Allow me to introduce you to Cohn's law, if you don't already know what it is (and everyone in the world of IT inherently knows what it is, just not what it's called)...
https://www.just-one-liners.com/mrphyslaw/cohns-law/
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 17, 2021 at 4:37 pm
How's everybody? Wishing a good 2022
Thank you! I hope the same for you and yours.
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December 17, 2021 at 7:43 pm
Jo Pattyn wrote:How's everybody? Wishing a good 2022
Same to you and everyone here 🙂
For me, 2022 brings change, after 38 years in this job, it officially ends 31st March 2022 🙁
Retiring or something different?
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 20, 2021 at 10:34 pm
Casually reviewing jobs at the moment but will get more serious in new year and see what happens??
Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.
December 21, 2021 at 12:29 am
I don't think you'll need it but good luck with whatever you go for.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 21, 2021 at 9:51 am
Doing fine. Bracing for omikron impact. There is also some budget tightening, luckily most sql databases are now sql 2019 or azure
December 21, 2021 at 10:02 am
We've got a new-ish director (been here almost a year), a new DBA manager, and two new DBAs which means a major work culture shift for our team. Especially as I'm the last of the "old guard". Corporate wants us to cut our costs with one hand, but is coming up with new initiatives on the other and we're already running as lean as we can.
So I'm seeing an interesting year ahead.
It's going to be my first Christmas without my dad too, so there's that too. I'm sure I'll muddle through. I hope.
December 21, 2021 at 10:23 am
It's a big year for us next year because we're moving into AWS. The initial migration will be like-for-like to maintain consistency but there's going to be the opportunity to move on to the Amazon products over time. It's going to be an interesting project and will definitely give me plenty of chance to broaden my CV.
It's also true to say that the incentives to stay where I am are becoming fewer and fewer. There's a growing feeling that it's time to move on.
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December 21, 2021 at 2:17 pm
Heh... mine has started off with a bit of a "well that sucks" factor. Whole new time-keeping system where they want me to categorize virtually every aspect of what I do as a "hybrid" DBA. They originally wanted me to do things like keep track of the time I spent on index maintenance by project/application/DB. Allow me to introduce you to Cohn's law, if you don't already know what it is (and everyone in the world of IT inherently knows what it is, just not what it's called)...
So true, wish those in HR or upper management could understand this
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December 21, 2021 at 2:58 pm
Jeff Moden wrote:Heh... mine has started off with a bit of a "well that sucks" factor. Whole new time-keeping system where they want me to categorize virtually every aspect of what I do as a "hybrid" DBA. They originally wanted me to do things like keep track of the time I spent on index maintenance by project/application/DB. Allow me to introduce you to Cohn's law, if you don't already know what it is (and everyone in the world of IT inherently knows what it is, just not what it's called)...
So true, wish those in HR or upper management could understand this
Funnily enough, the (mis)use of time-tracking tools is one of the reasons I'm starting to get itchy feet. That and insisting we come into to the office when government, corporate and WHO advice is to not...
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December 21, 2021 at 3:28 pm
Heh... mine has started off with a bit of a "well that sucks" factor. Whole new time-keeping system where they want me to categorize virtually every aspect of what I do as a "hybrid" DBA. They originally wanted me to do things like keep track of the time I spent on index maintenance by project/application/DB. Allow me to introduce you to Cohn's law, if you don't already know what it is (and everyone in the world of IT inherently knows what it is, just not what it's called)...
I think I would welcome this, assuming that they are actually going to do some analysis of the data.
My time goes into one bucket. Recently, I started tracking every single thing I did each day and sending it to my boss. It was really an eye opener for the C level folks. They were kind of in shock that I did so many things for so many groups. It got me more money.
We had a pretty detailed set of time tracking when I was director of IT. We looked at what the folks spent time on, and compared it to the same tasks. As an example, person A took 1 hour to install SQL, person B took 8. Is one really good at it, and the other really bad? Or is one really thorough and the other not so much?
It can also be a tool for you, especially when you may be facing a deadline. When the bosses ask why, you can simply say "see for yourself"
Michael L John
If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
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December 21, 2021 at 3:45 pm
I always wondered if those looking at this understood that time spent thinking or architecting a solution many times is more valuable than creating many things quickly and spiraling into rework. One can seem to move a bit slower, but is always working on new stuff. The other can sometimes appear very busy and productive in some eyes.
We designed a productivity measure for warehouse workers. How many lines, how many pieces, how many pounds of product, and the distance between each item factored in. Some if one picked one line, and it was a pallet of the product, they didn’t appear productive compared to someone picking 50 lines of different product in all corners of the warehouse.
When gathering requirements, we spent more time. Coding went faster when we had a clear vision. And rework was rare. Business tends to outline the tip of the iceberg, where we tend to think more in terms of flexible, scalable solutions you can build on to answer the next set of related requirements that will be coming. The more data they get, the more questions they have most of the time.
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