Knowledge transfer is an important part of being a good DBA - both transfering your knowledge to others and participating in having others' knowledge transferred to you.So the third DBA rule of thumb is this: Share Your Knowledge!The more you learn as a DBA, the more you should try to share what you know with other DBAs. Local database user groups typically meet quarterly or monthly to discuss aspects of database management systems. Healthy local scenes exist for DB2, SQL Server, and Oracle: be sure to attend these sessions to learn what your...
Monday, 25 November 2013
Monday, 18 November 2013
DBA Rules of Thumb - Part 2 (Automate)
Posted on 12:16 by Unknown
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. And that time can be spent tackling other problems, learning about new features and functionality, or training others.Furthermore, don’t reinvent the wheel. Someone, somewhere, at some time many have already solved the problem you currently are attempting to solve. Look to the web for sites that allow you to download and...
Wednesday, 13 November 2013
DBA Rules of Thumb - Part 1
Posted on 14:33 by Unknown
Over the years I have gathered, written, and assimilated multiple collections of general rules of the road that apply to the management discipline of Database Administration (DBA). With that in mind, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of these Rules of Thumb (or ROTs) with you in a series of entries to my blog.Now even though this is a DB2-focused blog, the ROTs that I will be covering here are generally applicable to all DBMSs and database professionals.The theme for this series of posts is that database administration is a very technical...
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
IBM Information on Demand 2013, Wednesday
Posted on 15:34 by Unknown
Today's blog entry from Las Vegas covering this year's IOD conference will be my final installment on the 2013 event.The highlight for Wednesday, for me anyway, was delivering my presentation to a crowded room of over a hundred folks who were interested in hearing about cost optimization and DB2 for z/OS. The presentation was kind of broken down into two sections. The first discussed subcapacity pricing and variable workload license charges (vWLC). IBM offers vWLC for many of its popular software offerings, including DB2 for z/OS. What that means...
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
IBM Information on Demand 2013, Tuesday
Posted on 22:59 by Unknown
The second day of the IBM IOD conference began like the first, with a general session attended by most of the folks at the event. The theme of today's general session was Big Data and Analytics in Action. And Jake Porway was back to host the festivities.The general session kicked off talking about democratizing analytics, which requires putting the right tools in people's hands when and where they want to use them. And also the necessity of analytics becoming a part of everything we do.These points were driven home by David Becker of the Pew Charitable...
Monday, 4 November 2013
IBM Information on Demand 2013, Monday
Posted on 22:29 by Unknown
Hello everybody, and welcome to my daily blogging from the IOD conference. Today (Monday, 11/4) was my first day at the conference and it started off with a high octane general session. Well, actually, that's not entirely accurate. It started off with a nice (somewhat less than healthy) breakfast and a lot of coffee. But right after that was the general session.The session was emceed by Jake Porway, who bills himself as a Data Scientist. He is also a National Geographic host and the founder of DataKind. Porway extolled the virtues of using Big...
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