Hello All
For everyone who knows me "Bashar Shannak", they know that i hate to blog or write eventually, and that maybe i'm working more than 17 hrs per day and on call 24/7, huuuh why is all that about? what's your job to work all these hours? and what's the interesting to work 24/7?
All these questions have one answer, just three letters enough to answer all these questions; it's a "DBA", when you are a DBA then you are dealing with the most important and critical part in any company, which is "DATA".
To be a professional DBA in my point of view only, you have treat the "DATA" as your own baby, watching it grow in front your eyes, and try to keep it away from any risk, and study how to keep it alive and available, and have many copies "Backups" from it, and spread these copies everywhere to ensure that your data will still remain somehow.
When you get a call at 3:00 am on weekend's night or holidays, you wake up so quickly to see what is going on, is it an attack on your baby "DATA", or a human error dropped everything, or hardware failure you can't have an access to your "DATA", sure it's one of them or more but for sure it is NOT a good news, it's 3:00 am sure it's not good news, then you have to prepare you plans to restore everything the way it was, and you do that, not for extra money, or for hear a thank you words, no no, it's your job, it's your baby, can you offer money for a DAD who taking care of his baby, right?
So what is good to be a DBA? you don't have extra money for your extra effort -in some companies-, you are always online, your job is so risky, any mistake worth much!!!! so why you choose to be a DBA????
When you are a DBA, it's not a skills you need to learn it's also natural of you, you love to be in control, you love to monitor what's going on and how things going on. you love to draw a plans to be ready for any risks you'll have, you love to keep tracking on your data efficiency.
But the most thing interesting to be an DBA is the feeling when you can solve any problem happened to you baby, watching it up again, this feeling draw a smile, not only on my face, also on all people who concern of this data.
So after all it's a great to be a DBA...... from my point only ;)
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
first time i blog...
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4 comments:
i love it :))
i doubt that it would be easy to be a DBA it does need a strong man to stand for it, and yes dude, you have to treat the data like if it was your own baby and you watch grows and you need to protect it and thats all because its the most valuable item that all of us is working for, its because its the DATA ...
i love your words and i really hope that you'll keep posting about this issue i'll be always a watcher :)
Cheers ;)
thank you man for these pretty words, and i'll try to find sometime to post anything will help.
let me disagree,
at first it's not your baby, and you are not it's dad, you are just a nanny, who loves this baby so much that you wish it's yours, but it's not.
in the end of the day, if the data is safe, it's not because of you, and when part of it is lost, it's because you didn't do a good job.
I guess this is the truth that you try so hard to ignore.
:)
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