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Dealing With a Lack of Control as a DBA
Dear SQL DBA
English - May 18, 2018 00:29 - 34 minutes - 64.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsTechnology Education How To dba databases sqlserver sqlworkbooks Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week I discuss a question that I've gotten in many forms over the years - a lot of the scenarios are so specific that it's hard to keep them anonymous, but they can be generalized as a bigger problem: how do I deal with being responsible for things that I can't fully control?
DBAs have huge responsibilities, so this is a common, frustrating scenario. In this episode, I talk about a few times that I've experienced this in my own life, what techniques didn't work, and what strategies were more effective.