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I would rather eat shards of broken glass than implement merge replication, but that’s just me. Some people make a great living eating broken glass at carnivals. You should choose your own path in life.
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Believe me, administrators enjoy having a weekend off every now and then, same as everyone else.
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Work smarter, not harder. Find ways to be proactive in solving issues.
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Mr. Right, however, is the guy that not only puts out the fires as they happen, but also has the knowledge and experience to put controls into place to make certain that the problems are less likely to happen again. So, they not only know enough to fix the current issue, but they know enough to solve the root cause of the problem. The solutions they put in place do not complicate the environment; they help to lessen their workload.
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There are two reasons for someone to be a Mr. Right Now. The first is that there are far too many problems at the onset of their tenure and they are going to be fighting a long battle to get all of the fires under control. The second reason is that they are a juniorlevel administrator who knows just enough to fix the current issue.
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TIP: Being able to fix things does not make you a senior DBA. You become a senior DBA by making certain that things do not break in the first place.
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Mr. Right Now : This is the guy that is always available to solve any problem. He is very visible, everyone knows his name, and everyone knows what he does. He fixes things. It doesn’t matter what time of the day or night, he is always there. When there is a problem—any problem—you call Mr. Right Now and he finds a way to solve that problem. He rarely fails to deliver and everyone praises his hard work and effort. However, whenever he solves a problem, he solves it just enough to move on to the next emergency. Mr. Right : This is the guy that you rarely see. When there is a problem, he pokes his head around the corner, but since there are few problems, people never really know that he is around. In fact, people often ask, “So, what is it you do around here?” But when Mr. Right solves a problem, he solves it for good, making sure that he never has to touch that server again to address that issue. Then, he proactively does that same fix against the rest of his servers before they experience a similar issue, thereby solving problems before they happen.
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Your company needs its sales force, for example. But we need all the other personality types, too. Those salespeople need products and services to sell.
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Every time an alert comes in, you are being given the opportunity to learn something new. Embrace that and learn to love it, because if you do not it will quickly become the bane of your existence to the point that you want to throw your Crackberry against the wall.
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About Alerts
If you don’t know what they are for, then you need to find out why you are getting them.