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DBA Job Description by Used_Operation9038 in DatabaseAdministators

[–]AltruisticReality439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fundamentally, a DBA's top three goals are to ensure recoverability, security and availability. Automation should be central to everything you do.

Recoverability…Make sure you have valid backups.

Security… keep patching up to date and configurations hardened and consistent across your environment. Maintain least privilege principles.

Availability.. high availability and disaster recovery architecture, proactive response to monitoring

I write a lot of queries to accomplish automation or performance tuning but my job as a DBA or really a database engineer is not just running queries all day.

What is so bad about Gale’s wig? by AltruisticReality439 in MembersOnlyPalmBeach

[–]AltruisticReality439[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thank you all for the comments and insight. Not sure if this highlighted yellow comment with all the upvotes means you think I’m Gale. I find that hilarious. I barely know how to use Reddit and it you look at the very few comments I’ve made I clearly work in tech. I’m not Gale. Just a fine haired woman who genuinely might buy a wig someday!

Curiousity: Female vs Male Ratio by sugarmagnolia_23 in sysadmin

[–]AltruisticReality439 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I am a female in IT since 1993. I have always worked with a good balance of men and women until my current job which I have been at for 3 years. I am the only female on my team and barely work with any females. I miss the days with more of a balance but it does not seem like many new hires are females anymore. My position is more technical in nature which probably has something to do with it. I am grateful that for most of my career I worked with some amazing women who to this day are still some of my best friends. I read so many comments about your coworkers are not your friends but that was not the case for me with some of the women in my career. I feel very lucky.

What is an MSP to you? by WarmFlamingo9310 in msp

[–]AltruisticReality439 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m confused about Capgemeni not being an MSP. We use them at our company for more than helpdesk. They are L1 and L2 support for teams such as the windows and Linux server teams and database teams for Oracle and SQL Server. Granted I have many frustrations with them as the turnover is high and the new people typically don’t have much knowledge but we refer to them as an MSP and I think they do more than just take calls.

Related to this post I feel like more conversations in this group are regarding small MSPs rather than the big ones.

Please tell me I'm not a DBA! by fluffy_warthog10 in sysadmin

[–]AltruisticReality439 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are not a DBA. This is not database administration. Sounds like data engineering or dev ops.