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DBA Survivor Become a Rock Star DBA

:	Thomas LaRock
:	DBA Survivor Become a Rock Star DBA
:	Apress
:	9781430227885
:	1
:	CHF 42.30
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:	Informatik
:	English

:	250
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:	PDF

DBA Survivor is a book to help new database administrators understand more about the world of database administration. More and more people are moving into the DBA profession, and many are looking for a getting-started guide. Blogs are written about how to be an exceptional DBA and what to do in your first 100 days. This book takes a different approach, injecting some humor into helping you understand how to hit the ground running, and most importantly how to survive as a DBA.

And it's not just survival that matters. AuthorThomas LaRock wants much more for you than mere survival. He wants you to have excellence, competence, visibility, confidence, and service. These are the traits and characteristics of DBAs who truly succeed and become respected in their profession. Don't settle for just muddling through your job each day. Strive to excel. Aim to make a difference, for your clients, and for your colleagues.

Focuse on the soft skills that distinguish truly exceptional DBAs
Takes a humorous approach to keep readers engaged
Written by a SQL Server 'Most Valuable Professional' and board member of PASS

Thomas LaRock is a seasoned information technology professional with over a decade of technical and management experience. Currently serving as a senior database administrator for Confio Software, Thomas has progressed through several roles in his career including programmer, analyst, and database administrator. Thomas holds a master of science degree in mathematics from Washington State University and is a member of the Usability Professionals Association. Thomas currently serves on the board of directors for the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), and is also a SQL Server 'Most Valuable Professional'. Thomas can also be found blogging at http://thomaslarock.com and is the author of DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Star DBA (http://www.dbasurvivor.com).

	Title Page	1
	Copyright Page	2
	Contents at a Glance	4
	Table of Contents	5
	Foreword	10
	About the Author	12
	About the Technical Reviewers	13
	Acknowledgments	14
	Introduction	15
	Chapter 1 How Did I Get Here?	16
	My Journey	16
	Early Lessons	17
	Early Career	18
	Luck, Preparation, and Opportunity	19
	Community	20
	Other Journeys	20
	Pharmacist	21
	Hotel Manager	21
	Estimating Supervisor	21
	MUMPS Programmer	21
	Your Journey	22
	Get Prepared	23
	Get Trained	24
	Get Certified	24
	Now Go and Get Your Opportunity!	25
	Staying Focused	26
	Chapter 2 Now What Do I Do?	27
	What You Have in Common with the President	27
	Your Initial Checklist	28
	Create a List of Servers	30
	Check Database Backups	31
	Verify That You Can Restore	32
	Build a List of Customers	32
	List the Most Important Databases	33
	List Upcoming Projects and Deliverables	34
	Establish Environmental Baselines	34
	Compose Your Recovery Plan	35
	You Have Your Info, Now What?	36
	Meet with Your Manager	36
	Meet with the Developers	37
	Meet with the Server Administrators	37
	Meet with Your Customers	38
	Is That Alert Serious?	39
	Should I Look Into That Alert?	40
	Review the Alert System	40
	Ask the Developers	41
	Ask the Server Administrators	41
	Ask Your Customers	41
	Hi, Want to Grab Some Lunch?	42
	Meeting by Eating	42
	Politicking, or Not	43
	Dealing with Introversion	43
	Accept That Nothing Is Wrong	43
	Take Care of Yourself	44
	Be Open and Straightforward	44
	Join Some Organizations	44
	Accept That Nothing Is Wrong	45
	Track Your Progress	46
	Get Proactive	46
	Chapter 3 Some Basics	48
	Introduction to RAID	49
	Why Is RAID So Important?	49
	RAID for Performance	50
	RAID for Fault Tolerance	51
	RAID 0	52
	RAID 1	52
	RAID 5	53
	RAID 1+0	53
	Which RAID Level Do You Want?	54
	Your Needs	54
	The ABCs of SANs for DBAs	55
	Why RAID 5 Might Work for You	56
	The Lost Art of Benchmarking	57
	It s All About the Spindles, Baby	58
	High Availability Options	59
	Clustering	59
	Log Shipping	61
	Replication	62
	Transactional Replication	63
	Merge Replication	63
	Snapshot Replication	64
	Database Mirroring	64
	Disaster Recovery Planning	65
	DR Testing	66
	Carnegie Hall	67
	Networks Are Like Bathrooms	68
	Call a Plumber	68
	Fix It Now!	69
	DBA Stands For . . .	69
	People Will Resist Change	70
	Having Standards and Processes Is Not a Bad Thing	72
	People Will Blame What They Do Not Understand	73
	Blame vs. Credit	74
	The Need to Be Right vs. Being Liked	75
	Chapter 4 A Development ServerIs a Production Serverto a Developer	76
	Why Developers Are So Needy	77
	Under Pressure	77
	Business Needs	78
	SQL Knowledge	79
	Service-Level Agreements	80
	Being a Good Customer	81
	Communication Is Key	82
	Managing Expectations	83
	No One Cares About Effort	84
	Let s Talk	84
	Get Involved Early	85
	Communicate Your Actions	86
	You Are Not Fast Enough	86
	You Did It Wrong	86
	Be Responsive and Responsible	87
	Time Management	88
	Develop a Routine	88
	Stress Relief	89
	To-Do Lists	90
	Chunks	90
	Know When to Say No	91
	Chris Hansen and Code Reviews	91
	Chapter 5 Production Support	93
	Service-Level Agreements	94
	I Thought We Had an Agreement?	95
	Get to Know What You Do	95
	Be Nice	96
	Establish Support Process	97
	Define Process	98
	Publish Process	99
	Remind and Enforce	99
	Work/Life Balance	100
	Communication	100
	Protect Your Private Time	101
	Happy Fun Play Time	101
	Outsourcing	102
	Quality of Work	103
	Language Barriers	104
	Security	105
	Job Security	105
	All Good Things	106
	Chapter 6 Basic Troubleshooting	107
	CSI: SQL	107
	Incidents	108
	Interrogations	109
	Surveillance	109
	Common Bottlenecks	110
	Disk	111
	Memory	111
	CPU	112
	Available Tools	112
	Reliability and Performance Monitor	112
	Disk I/O	114
	SQLServer:PhysicalDisk	114
	SQLServer:Buffer Manager	115
	Memory	115
	CPU	115
	Activity Monitor	116
	Disk I/O	116
	Memory	117
	CPU	117
	Dynamic Management Views (DMVs)