Day-in-the-Life

A Day in the Life (4/?) - August 2, 2019

Day-in-the-Life, Sqlcareer

This is my fourth installment in a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog | twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I jotted down most of what I did through the day, filling a page and then some in a small notebook with timestamps and short reminders of what happened. For more, check out the #SQLCareer hashtag on Twitter.

Background

I bet you thought I’d forgotten all about this “project”. I decided to pick things back up on this day because I’ve been light on content lately, I had a few things going on, and keeping notes for this series strangely helps me focus on my day. As it turned out, there were a few twists in the story of my Friday.

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A Day in the Life (3/?) - September 13, 2018

Day-in-the-Life, Sqlcareer

This is my third installment in a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog|twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I decided to jot down most of what I did through the day, filling a page and a half in a Field Notes notebook with timestamps and short reminders of what happened. For more, check out the #SQLCareer hashtag on Twitter.

Background

I chose to record this day because I was working from home as my car was in the shop and I thought I might get some bigger things done without the distractions of being in the office. But as Mike Tyson famously said, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

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A Day in the Life (2/?) - August 14, 2018

Day-in-the-Life, Sqlcareer

This is my second installment in a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog|twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I decided to jot down most of what I did through the day, filling a page and a half in a Field Notes notebook with timestamps and short reminders of what happened. For more, check out the #SQLCareer hashtag on Twitter.

Background

I’m one of two DBAs in my company, and my colleague is (still) on holiday on the opposite side of the planet so I’m juggling everything – on-call, regular operations, consults with developers, you name it. In production, we manage several thousand databases which sit behind about as many websites.

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A Day in the Life (1/?) - August 7, 2018

Day-in-the-Life, Sqlcareer

This is my first installment in (I hope) a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog|twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I decided to jot down most of what I did through the day, filling a page and a half in a Field Notes notebook with timestamps and short reminders of what happened. For more, check out the #SQLCareer hashtag on Twitter.

Background

I’m one of two DBAs in my company, and my colleague is on holiday on the opposite side of the planet (literally) for a couple weeks so I’m juggling everything - on-call, regular operations, consults with developers, you name it. In production, we manage several thousand databases which sit behind about as many websites.

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