Habits of Highly Effective DBA

干了12年Oracle DBA, 职位到了 Data Architect.
今天写一篇关于DBA技术之外的技能和职业艺术

1) Seven Habits of Highly Effective DBA
http://www.dmreview.com/editorial/newsletter_article.cfm?articleId=1062133

2) The Non-Technical Art of Being a Successful DBA
http://www.dbazine.com/blogs/blog-cf/chrisfoot/blogentry.2006-09-10.8657066083

Hope you have time to read them.

Here is something what I learned.
• Change control
• SLA (360-Degree Review Process)
• Design review + communication with business unit
• Naming convention
• Document
o Repeatable Processes
o Corrective Action Reports

And what I did and am doing,
• The Foot Rule of Thumb (experiment and create your own rules of thumb)
o test, experiment and learn
• Instrument the code

* Binding
* Set based process
* Benchmark

The answer is as always, find the better way, benchmark it, and the numbers will speak for themselves.
Ref from: On HTML DB, Bulking Up, and Speeding - Ask Tom