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?    [...]

Database administrators are ultimately responsible for guaranteeing the quality of their organization’s database environments. From protecting against unauthorized access to providing 24×7 availability – “the buck stops at the DBA Unit.” Although the database infrastructure (DB binaries, O/S, hardware) doesn’t change much, there is one component that usually changes a lot – the application. This [...]