As a DBA, Where Do I Start? (1.0)

As A DBA
Where Do I Start???
Mike Walsh
SQL Saturday – Waltham
January 30th, 2010

“Where Do I Start?”
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/uxud/3396427350/in/set-72157618745751536/

“How’s the Sr. DBA?”
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Mike Who???

What About You?

Goal 1:
Leave As
ADVOCATES

Goal 2:
Leave With
QUESTIONS

Goal 3:
Beat Up a MYTH..

“Set It And ForgetIt”

Leave As
ADVOCATES
Leave With
QUESTIONS

databaseadministrator(abbreviated as DBA)(computing)a person who isresponsiblefor the logical and physicaldesign of databases, and normally for all aspects of their recoverability, integrity, security, availability and performance
Source: Wiktionary.Com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mogwai_83/3022261893/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/everythingisaspoon/1463982617

“-ITTIES”

Recoverability

Reliability

Security
&
Auditability

Availability

“Performability”

Recoverability
Reliability
Security & Auditability
Availability
Performability

“You’re Fired”

Recoverability

60% Done Within 1 Yr (various)
72% Done within 2 years
Recreating data from scratch?
$2000/$8000/mb (2007, study)

Word Association

Recoverability

Restore or Backup?

Thinking of Backups
“How fast will backups be?”
“Can I backup to this tape?”
“Do We offsite the backups?”
“What Kind of Backup?

Thinking of Restores
“Restore Test Plan?”
“Will that tape work in 6 yrs?”
“How do we backup?”
“What about x or y scenarios?”

Who’s In Charge??

Meeting Expectations

Let’s Look
MAP
Environments Not Being Backed Up?
Full Recovery but no Log Backups?

Security
&
Auditability

Secure Your Environment
Least Privilege
Keep Developers out of Production
Write the policies
FOLLOW the policies

“Common sense
is
very uncommon”
– Horace Greeley

Security

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andryone/120278573

Wikimedia.org

Why After Recovery?

Least Privilege
Group Based
Role Based

Least Privilege

What is NECESSARY?

What is NOT NECESSARY?

Groups & Roles

Availability

“Low” Availability

Not Set-It and Forget-It

High Availability

Reliability

“HELP! We implemented this project and….”

UPDATE Project
SET NeedDBA = 1
WHERE
Date < GETDATE()

Wikiemedia.org

Goal 1:
Leave As
ADVOCATES

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasoncartwright/168646014/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yardena2009/3484240840

Data Quality

“Data Quality is also deferred until the yyyy planning session (3 yrs out)….”

Performability

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/1384954600

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikingartist/3515471358/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rsgranne/179319967

Recoverability
Reliability
Security & Auditability
Availability
Performability

Goal 1:
Leave As
ADVOCATES

Goal 2:
Leave With
QUESTIONS

Goal 3:
Beat Up a MYTH..

StraightPathSQL.com/where

mike@StraightPathSQL.com

About Mike
Principal DBA at a large insurance company
Consulting business, StraightPath Solutions
10+ years of SQL Server experience
Syndicated SQLServerPedia blogger
Twitter @ mike_walsh
Blog atwww.StraightPathSQL.Com
Daddy to two under 5 with one more on the way in 2010
Husband to an amazing wife

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