RE: course for DBAs in bureaucracies?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:57:03 -0700
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I must have sounded like a bureaucrat :-) OK, here's a hypothetical question. Unfortunately, you don't work for a nice employer. A layoff is coming and you know that management is looking for justifications to pick people. A database of one of your most important (and irritable) customers has been upgraded from 10g to 11g. Certain init parameters were supposed to be set (perhaps optimizer_features_enable or some such) but you forgot. Your excuse was that you worked the whole weekend and were extremely tired as a result and you forgot. There were tremendous performance problems for a week and you suddenly realized your mistake. What do you do? Be honest. (1) Admit the mistake to management(2) Fix the problem with "alter system" and hope that nobody finds out Iggy
From: iggy_fernandez_at_hotmail.com
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: course for DBAs in bureaucracies?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:56:25 -0700
re: "I noticed that many people do their best at first, then reach the point where they realize they will burn out; to protect their health they stop caring and just put in their hours. There has to be a better way." Yes, there is. Understand the purpose of bureaucracy (e.g. change management) and embrace it. Plan ahead, submit your change requests in time, use detailed standard operating procedures, have great documentation, have great competency, improve communication skills,. gain credibility by following the process and having a good track record of successful changes, build strong personal relationships with other parts of the organization including change mangers. That's the only way and it is a better way. And never ever yank a power cord on purpose. Iggy
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