On 05/12/2011 03:30 AM, Michael Graham wrote:
Do you happen to produce slides for these lunch n learns or are they more informal than that? I guess you can work out where I'm going with this ;)
Oh of course. I use rst2s5 for my stuff, so I have the slideshow and also generate a PDF complete with several paragraphs of explanation I distribute after the presentation itself. I have two of them now, but I'll probably have a third in a couple months.
My next topic will probably be geared toward actual DBAs that might be intermediate level. Things like, what happens to an OLAP server that undergoes maintenance and experiences rapid (temporarily exponential) TPS increase. How that can affect the disk subsystem, how to recover, how to possibly bootstrap as a temporary fix, etc. Certainly things I would have liked to know before seeing them. I'm going to call it "Your Database Probably Hates You." ;)
I have a tendency to enjoy "stories from the field," and I've got more than a few where I've saved a database from certain death. Sometimes it's tweaking a few config settings, sometimes it's new hardware based on system monitoring or allocation tests. Little things Senior DBAs might know after experiencing them, or reading lists like this one.
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