Re: What is DBA daily activities?

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:33:47 -0000
Message-ID: <8v3j4n$740$1@soap.pipex.net>

"Brian Peasland" <peasland_at_edcmail.cr.usgs.gov> wrote in message news:3A12B1F3.DE49CDB7_at_edcmail.cr.usgs.gov...
> > 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.

Indeed. Then I kick the sys admin to see why AT or CRON isn't running...

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK

Received on Fri Nov 17 2000 - 09:33:47 CST