The following list identifies six activities that I consider “critical” to successful leadership. These activities have helped me become and remain a more effective and efficient leader here at Remote DBA Experts. Strategize Align Energize Enable Actualize Recognize In my last post, I defined what I meant by Enabling and described what it entails.  In [...]

The following list identifies six activities that I consider “critical” to successful leadership. These activities have helped me become and remain a more effective and efficient leader here at Remote DBA Experts. Strategize Align Energize Enable Actualize Recognize In my last post, I defined what I meant by Energizing and described what it entails.  In [...]

The following list identifies six activities that I consider “critical” to successful leadership. These activities have helped me become and remain a more effective and efficient leader here at Remote DBA Experts. Strategize Align Energize Enable Actualize Recognize In my last post, I defined what I meant by Aligning and described what it entails.  In [...]

The following list identifies six activities that I consider “critical” to successful leadership. These activities have helped me become and remain a more effective and efficient leader here at Remote DBA Experts. Strategize Align Energize Enable Actualize Recognize In my last post, I defined what I meant by Strategizing and described what it entails.  In [...]

The following list identifies six activities that I consider “critical” to successful leadership. These activities have helped me become and remain a more effective and efficient leader here at Remote DBA Experts. <ol> <li><strong>Strategize</strong></li> <li><strong>Align</strong></li> <li><strong>Energize</strong></li> <li><strong>Enable</strong></li> <li><strong>Actualize</strong></li> <li><strong>Recognize</strong></li> </ol> The following list identifies six activities that I consider “critical” to successful leadership. These activities [...]

Let’s deviate from our technical topics for a blog or two.     As database administrators, it is important for us to know what educational topics we should be spending our most precious resource on.   That resource is our time.   When it comes to tuning education, what should we be learning?    Where should we be spending our time?    [...]

The following list identifies six activities that I consider “critical” to successful leadership. These activities have helped me become and remain a more effective and efficient leader here at Remote DBA Experts. Strategize Align Energize Enable Actualize Recognize In my last post, I shared how I framed the meaning of the six terms I used [...]

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of articles, blog posts, books, etc. written about leadership and management.   Ultimately, you can distill all of the information available into a few critical activities.  That is what I’ve done.  These activities are what I call my “Critical Leadership Activities™”.   They emerged over time resulting from lots of reading, [...]

We continue our discussion on the various tools that DBAs can use to identify high resource consuming SQL statements.  We started by learning that there are several data dictionary tables that we can access using SQL statements to retrieve information we need.     The next blog focused on the 10G DB Console.   We found that the 10G DB Console [...]

In an earlier post, I identified and briefly described the “Seven A’s of Accomplishment”: Ambition Attitude Aptitude Approach Action Absorption Adaptiveness In my last post, I described the Absorption factor.  In this post, I will expand upon the Seventh and final Accomplishment factor: Adaptiveness.   I will do so by answering the following questions: •What is [...]