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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: What is DBA daily activities?
> I like to get in early in the morning and make sure everything
> is okay. I run my scripts that check the disk space and alert
> logs on each of the production servers. Then I log into each
> of the production database instances just to make sure they are
> alive and well.
>
> If I see that we are running short of disk space or that there
> are errors in the alert logs I take corrective action.
I do all of this too, but I automate it through CRON (unix) or AT (NT). I then email the results to my inbox. That way the results are waiting for me to browse right away in the morning.
> Next I check my incoming emails to see if any of the users,
> the help desk, or the Systems Administrators have any problems.
For all my emails, it normally takes me about an hour each morning to sift through all of the reports, etc.
> Once I learned how to spell DBA, I became one
Once I learned how to spell OCP, I became one! :) (ok, so it wasn't nearly that easy)
Cheers,
Brian
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