As an IT professional – whether you be a database administrator, a systems engineer, a storage administrator, a network administrator, developer, etc. – the one thing that we need to get a good grasp on in our day-to-day task is MONITORING. Whether we like it or not, monitoring is part of our daily life. I […]
“I want zero downtime and zero data loss” – anonymous IT manager Don’t we usually hear this a lot when implementing a new high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solution? The stakeholders want zero downtime and zero data loss. As IT professionals we struggle so much trying to find the right solution that would […]
“Today’s DBAs have responsibilities that go far beyond their traditional role of data custodian.” I was reading an infographic that Idera published about their accidental DBA survey results and wasn’t surprised at all by the results. I considered myself an accidental DBA when I was starting out in the industry. And I can […]
