Re: DBA 3.0 - Holistic DBA - New post on my blog...
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:37:27 -0700 (PDT)
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I love Wambulance..... My daughter taught it to me long ago and I use it often.
I've used black belt DBA before, but holistic DBA seems to more aptly describe the direction I'm trying to go in with respect to the article.
>> I think this isn't something you decide... it's not like you wake up one day
>>and say "ok, today i'm going to be a holistic DBA". The organization you work
>>for needs to be
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>> prepared for you to work that way and specially your colleagues and bosses
>>need to understand what you are doing. It is, however, a matter of letting go
>>of the ego and doing
>>
>> things to improve everything.
No, but I think it is something you can begin to pave the way for. I actually
have the rest of my series written but I'm now thinking of slightly altering one
part to make this point. Too many times we are willing to let road blocks,
politics, egos and the like get in our way. That is why the art of communication
is a very important part of that list. However along with that art, it takes a
mentality and that is what I'm thinking about slightly rewriting the next couple
of posts in the series to include. I don't quite have it all laid out in my
mind, but my role model is Patton, if that tells you something.
Your notions about playing freecell, etc are right on the money and I'm trying to address the notion, once this things runs by itself, then what? How do you communicate to your manager that you will actually be able to bring more value to the enterprise by essentially being able to play freecell instead of fighting fires. How to you make yourself more valuable to them (and perhaps manage a raise or more bonus money). We have to talk in their terms, in words they understand, be it ROI, reduced outages, or whatever the current hot button topic is. It's by being able to bring more value to the enterprise by offering services that have never been available before.
Robert G. Freeman
Master Principal Consultant, Oracle Corporation, Oracle ACE
Author of various books on RMAN, New Features and this shorter signature line.
Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com
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From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba_at_gmail.com> To: robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com
Cc: ORACLE-L <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Tue, July 5, 2011 10:07:10 AM
Subject: Re: DBA 3.0 - Holistic DBA - New post on my blog...
I think the word I loved most on your article was wambulance... I'll use it more often :-)
I found your last post very interesting, I do like "black belt" dba better than holistic dba ;-)
I think this isn't something you decide... it's not like you wake up one day and say "ok, today i'm going to be a holistic DBA". The organization you work for needs to be prepared for you to work that way and specially your colleagues and bosses need to understand what you are doing. It is, however, a matter of letting go of the ego and doing things to improve everything.
As I once (perhaps not very wisely) described my objectives on a grid control implementation with my manager
"I want things to run in such a way so I can spend a whole day playing FreeCell in the office and don't get a single alert, e-mail, page, call, etc... and then I'll be bored and move on to another project" I think he understood that playing free cell wasn't the point... but it kinda is... I like to automate as much as possible, and I usually use EM to automate as it is the most visible place to do so.
cheers
Alan.-
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
For those of you that have been reading my DBA 3.0 series .... I apologize for a rather long delay in continuing the series but the next part is not sitting on my blog at
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>http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com.
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>Hope you enjoy it!
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>Robert
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