Life.. As a DBA

Life..As a DBA is cool,smooth,entertaining in fact it stands for DBA: Din Bhar Aram (Relaxing throught the day) till the application guy rushes to you with a not-so-happy mood and utters the magic words " My application running Slow". Then Starts the real life as a DBA

Once the day starts as a DBA, it starts with googling ORA- Errors and serching in a hurry in metalink for probable bug for the probable cause and hopefully for a probable solution. Alert logs, documentation become the hot objects to look at rather than Facebook.

As a DBA, it becomes a regular routine to clash with Your skills Vs Required skills. No doubt, the required skill wins. To conquer the later, there is one successful mantra i.e Read, read and read. You are already in the way to conquer the required skills as you are reading this blog :)

Everyone expects everything from a DBA and DBA has to satisfy them otherwise no doubt ball will be in your court. Everyone in the cabin will find out the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for the issue is due to bottleneck of database. The more you try to defend, the more fingers will be raised. So, the required skills for a DBA is infinity. He requires SA(system Admin) skills, Storage admin skills, backup admin skills, developing skills, Application skills and most importantly skill to defend that Your DB is running smooth which requires Close observation and close monitoring. So, the moral of the story is even if one DBA does not have mood to work, everyone make him to work.

But in my view, DBA should work as minimal as possible. As per my experience goes, whenever one DBA works, there must be some issue happening some where in DB or someone facing some issue in his application.So, If the DBA simply surfing or chatting without monitoring the Black and white screen, one can be pretty much sure that everything is running smooth and no intervene required.

Thus Let the DBA do his task i.e Din Bhar Aram and let no one else disturb him throughout his Shift for a good prospect of the project and the company. With this appeal, i m starting my blogging carrer of DBA as there is not much of work to do rather than writing blogs in the shift. If anyone complains, I can strongly justify myself that i am getting time to blog as my database is perfectly tuned.

As a DBA,
Sunil