• DBA Life - Oracle

    Presentation Slides from MOW 2012 Available!

    Anyone interested in viewing the PDF to either of my presentations from MOW2012, which was held in Billund, Denmark this last week, the slides are now available via the following links: Making EM12c Work for You and ASH Analytics, Top Activity the Next Generation If you have any questions, please let me know, I’ll be glad to add the speaker content that may not be visible in the slides! ~Kellyn

  • DBA Life - Oracle

    Denmark, MOW2012 and ODTUG’s KSCOPE Blog

    I am preparing to fly out to Denmark tomorrow for Miracle Open World, 2012 in Billund, Denmark, MOW2012 It will be my first time to Europe, so I’m highly anticipating the journey and conference. I also had the pleasure of guest blogging on ODTUG’s blog this week: ODTUG’s Blog I’m all packed, ready to go and ramping up for KSCOPE 2012 in June!! Enkitec will have a huge booth, no doubt and we will have a solid group of folks speaking at the event!

  • DBA Life - Oracle - SQLServer

    Assumptions- The Other DBA Killer

    ~ The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable ~ Paul Broca I’ve always found assumptions to be one of the most common cause of failures in software releases/maintenance windows. If I had a dime for every time I’ve heard, “I thought you were going to take care of/do that…” or “I didn’t involve you earlier because I thought the steps you were responsible for were so easy…”, well, you know the saying and I’d be rich. Assumptions causing participation of the DBA too late into a project, release or maintenance is widespread enough when you are onsite, but…