Well, at least that is the impression I have from Operations Manager. Let me explain why.
It all started around the time we were making some adjustments to one of our servers that was not performing as well as our end users would have liked. The short end of that story is that we ended up [...]
Things That Make Me Want To Chew Tinfoil
Just Blame The Database
Enough already.
How has it come to be acceptable that whenever issues arise with any computerized system it is okay to use the phrase “there was a problem with the database” and everyone just accepts that and moves on with their lives but not before kicking their DBA around? For the record, as a DBA we [...]
Cold Calls
I am thinking I should blog about this, but I didn’t want people to think I am a bigger ass than I already am. I have been assured that is not possible, so here goes.
Just a quick note to all those sales-persons out there that have me on their list of call to make. Stop [...]
More Violated Now Than Ever Before
Last week while I was trying to have a vacation in Las Vegas, something came up at work that seemed rather strange. It seems that our monitoring scripts for a particular server stopped working. Worse, our backups also started failing. We can live without monitoring for a period of time, but we really need to [...]
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