Tag Archives: administration

Finding a Balance

Posted on August 31, 2012 by way0utwest

This editorial was originally published on Nov 19, 2007. It is being republished as Steve is on vacation. When I started in IT things were much simpler. We had smaller data sets, but hardware was larger. There just wasn’t a … Continue reading →

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Separate Accounts

Posted on August 10, 2012 by way0utwest

Many years ago I worked in a small company that only had about 5 or 6 servers. We had one system administrator whose job it was to manage all the servers. One day our sysadmin was on vacation when there … Continue reading →

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The Copy Cat Poll

Posted on August 3, 2012 by way0utwest

One of the interesting facts I saw a few years ago talked about storage in enterprise environments. There was research that showed many enterprise applications had 6 or 7 copies of their large databases inside the organization. In addition to … Continue reading →

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The DBA Database

Posted on July 31, 2012 by way0utwest

Do you have a DBA database on all your instances? I’ve always kept a small database on all instances, usually standardized with a set of tables and procedures that I used to monitor and track activity on the instance. By … Continue reading →

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