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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.
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If you have found one server that is not running any backups, or the backups are failing, then that server must take precedence over everything else. I don’t care which one of your “most important” customers screams at you on day one to fix a query they wrote that filled up a 70GB log drive, you must ensure you can recover from a disaster.
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Es war ein achteckiger Bau, der aus der Ferne zunächst wie eine Viereck aussah … Drei Fensterreihen skandierten den Tripelrhythmus des Aufbaus, dergestalt daß, was physisch als Quadrat auf der Erde stand, sich spirituell als Dreieck zum Himmel erhob. Beim näherkommen sahen wir dann, daß aus der quadratischen Grundform an jeder ihrer vier Ecken ein siebeneckiger Turm hervorsprang, der jeweils fünf Seiten nach außen kehrte, so daß mithin vier der acht Seiten des größeren Achtecks in vier kleinere Siebenecke mündeten, die sich nach außen als Fünfecke darstellten.
Obwohl der Turm genau beschrieben ist, weiß ich nach dem lesen nicht, wie er aussieht.
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Du sollst Wesen und Geist achten und kein Urteil aufgrund der Gestalt fällen!
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die Götter sind verdammt dazu, dort zu bleiben, wo die Gläubigen ihnen huldigen, denn sie verhelfen ihnen Kraft ihres Glaubens erst zur Existenz.