In summary: Who: you, me, MySQL/Sun What: MySQL User Group with free swag, food, and a short workshop to boot. When: 7-9 pm, Monday March 10th Where: MIT Building E-51, room 372 Why: why the heck not! Because Sun just bought MySQL, and because there’s a user group each month. How: RSVP optional but requested [...]
Feb
28
2008
Feb
14
2008
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pllolcode/ Do I really need to say more?
Jan
09
2008
I was blog-tagged by Doug Burns - his post is here: I *hate* chain letters …. I hate them too, I literally never pass them on no matter what vile fate that condemns me to (so far nothing has happened so maybe those are idle threats). But this one includes a chance to talk about myself [...]
Dec
14
2007
Hello everyone, We have several MySQL DBA openings, one in each of our offices in Ottawa, Boston, or Hyderabad, India. (Our Sydney office is doin’ fine.) Working at Pythian is different than working in-house or as a consultant, because you’ll be making your contributions available to each of the customers assigned to your team, allowing you to [...]
Nov
22
2007
Just a short blog entry about a funny error message I’ve got while trying to activate a physical standby database: SQL> alter database recover managed standby database finish skip standby logfile; alter database recover managed standby database finish skip standby logfile * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00283: recovery session canceled due to errors ORA-01110: data file 1: '/oradata/stage/datafile/system_01.dbf' ORA-01122: database file 1 [...]
Mar
16
2007
I was reading a couple of items on gapingvoid
- the hughtrain
- the porous membrane: why corporate blogging works
which inspired me to use our blog for a conversation with our customers (and with potential Pythian DBAs) about what it’s like to work with Pythian.
What exactly does an on-site DBA get from working with Pythian Remote DBAs?
- Sleep.
- Support: phone, IM or email some who either knows how to help or knows someone who knows how to help.
- Teammates: You can delegate tasks which are either too hard or too easy onto Pythian.
- Accountability. Every minute, every hour is documented for all to see, internally and by individual clients.
- Understanding: Someone who knows what being a DBA is like.
You are on-site. Picture the Pythian on-call team standing behind …
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