Here's how you can enhance your database administration by thinking outside the box.

Para quem trabalha com Administra??o de Bancos de Dados SQL Server aconselho automatizar as tarefas mais recorrentes utilizando scripts para isso associado ao powershell. O DBA Tools é um conjunto de scripts que ajudam demais nessa hora, com scripts prontos para a grande maioria dos processos de automa??o de tarefas. Utilizo muito e isso me fez liberar algumas pessoas do meu time para tarefas mais complexas, deixando o mais basico de forma totalmente automatizada.

Automation revolutionizes database administration by significantly reducing the time spent on routine tasks such as backups, index maintenance, and performance monitoring through the use of scripts and automation tools. This approach not only frees up time for addressing more complex issues but also minimizes the risk of human error. For example, automated alerts for database events allow for quicker responses to potential problems, ensuring your systems remain highly available and reliable.

Para quem trabalha com PostgreSQL, configurar os processos de autovaccum e vacuum corretamente é algo fundamental para um bom desempenho, e para isso é necessário entender como a rela??o entre n_live_tup e n_dead_tup impacta na performance do banco e como usar corretamente essas informa??es para configurar os processos citados anteriormente.

Some useful jobs that can be automated: 1. Comparing two or more databases, tables, or any objects that must have the same characters. 2. Altering objects according to the task system 3. Checking security rules 4. Finding illegal characters, settings, and values against objects 5. Checking Internal auditing 6. Checking spaces for Tablespaces 7. Gathering statistical information 7. Gathering business information 8. Checking counters and their threshold

Automation is great, nevertheless proper set up and configuration would be enough in 99% cases. Modern databases server are sophisticated enough to be steady, high avaialbility was a concern but 10 years ago. In case you need to do manual task and you think of automation of it, check what offers newers version of databases engines for administration. That should resolve most of your problems. Lastly, check for 3rd party tools. Sometimes it would be great spend of your company $100 per month for great help. It is always cheaper that automation done by limited DB Admins.

Data visualization is a powerful asset for database administrators, not just analysts. By visualizing database structures and performance metrics, you can uncover insights that raw data alone may not reveal. Tools that provide graphical representations of database schemas or display real-time query execution can help identify and address bottlenecks, optimizing database performance. Moreover, these visual aids facilitate the communication of complex database concepts to non-technical stakeholders, making it easier to convey important information and foster collaboration.

Some useful visualizing values: 1. Thresholds, abnormal status of objects, errors, and warnings are useful. 2. Watching Bufferpulls value, logs capacity, space capacity, opened file 3. The amount of operations in a database for monitoring shows trends.

In a big organization with a variety of developers and business designers, you have to know about all categories of databases. They try to use anyone for their needs. You as an admin should care about them. You have to provide hardware and install all of them for them. You have to be significantly ahead of others.

Since I have been managing databases since the IMS and DB2 the Mainframe on z/OS days, and I have then transitioned to all the other vendor DBMS platforms including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 UDB. I have actually taken a much more SIMPLISTIC approach to managing databases and by that I mean All Database Systems outside of the syntax and internals, they all look the same to me, they all use memory, cpu, disk, and inter-networking of sort. Thus all the tuning, automation and managing scripts that I have developed do the same for each of them w/ a great deal of success. So the more procedural the more successful I have been managing these systems. So 1-6 are all encompassed in my simpler approach. Out of the box may work for others