Re: Opinion on change control for DBA scripts

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Sandra Becker <sbecker6925_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> One of our VP's yelled at me this morning and slammed my door when he left
> my office. He was angry because I didn't check my scripts into the change
> control they use for the application code so wasn't able to give him
> information no exec has asked me for in my entire tenure with the company.
> I was collecting space usage stats to enable me to track for analysis and
> planning. A few months I lost all my scripts because IT decided it wasn't
> important to back them up. Hadn't gotten around to recreating this
> particular script since I was the only person using the information. He
> also asked for information on some disk space that isn't related to any of
> my databases and I don't have access to. That's when he yelled at me to
> get him what I could and slammed my door.
> So what do most DBAs do? Do you check your scripts into source control?
> have copies? don't worry about it? I have begun keeping copies on a thumb
> drive since the second time I lost everything.
>
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> Transzap, Inc.
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