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• Intelligent Automation of DBA Tasks

  To effectively manage enterprise databases, a DBA must understand both the business reasons for storing the data in the database and the technical details of how the data is structured and stored. These are two very different skill sets and in order to Read More... Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:11 AM by cmullins | 0 Comments Filed under: DBA, proactive, automation, business

• DBA Best Practices?

  This blog entry is going to be a little different than my regular entries. I'm going to use it as an open-ended introduction to encourage readers to post their favorite best practices. Give the following questions some thought and if you've got Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:54 PM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: recovery, backup, database auditing, DBA, proactive, automation

• DBA Rules of Thumb, Part 2 - Automate Intelligently

  Number 2: Automate Why should you do it by hand if you can automate DBA processes? Anything you can do probably can be done better by the computer – if it is programmed to do it properly. And once it is automated you save yourself valuable time. Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:57 AM by cmullins | 1 Comments Filed under: DBA, ROT, automation