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Category Archives: DBA
To Achieve Success DBAs Must Diversify
A good DBA is a Jack-of-All-Trades. You can’t just master one thing and be successful in this day-and-age. A day in the life of a DBA is usually quite hectic. The DBA maintains production and test environments, monitors active … Continue reading
The Business-Savvy DBA?
Heads-down DBAs who know technology, but not their company’s business, soon will be on the endangered species list. Be Business Savvy Although DBAs are technologists first and foremost, we need to be ever cognizant of the business reasons that our … Continue reading
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Managing Database Change
Although it is a cliché, it is also true that change is the only constant in today’s complex business environment. An ever-changing market causes businesses to continually adapt. Businesses need to strive to meet customer expectations that are constantly changing, … Continue reading
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 39,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this … Continue reading
DBA Rules of Thumb
Database administration is a very technical discipline, but it is also a discipline in which the practitioner is very visible politically within the organization. DBAs should be armed with a proper attitude and sufficient technical knowledge before attempting to practice … Continue reading
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The Ten Database Commandments
Thou shalt always design databases from a logical data model. Thou shalt always document thy database design. There are many important aspects of database administration, but of them all, data integrity shalt always remain the most important. Thou shalt encrypt … Continue reading
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Mucking About in Data Outhouses
Data warehousing is pervasive these days delivering an analytical environment for business intelligence and data discovery. But is enough thought being put into the accuracy of the data in the warehouse? Oh, sure, we hear about data scrubbing and data … Continue reading
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Recommended Database and Tech Books
As regular readers of my blog know, periodically I take the time to review some of the more interesting data and technology books that I’ve been reading. Today’s post is one of those reviews. First up, let’s take a look … Continue reading
