This presentation for DBAs covers best practices for people, processes, and products when managing database infrastructure. It emphasizes having the right people with skills aligned to tasks and a breadth of services. When evaluating products, it is important to understand what is installed, where, and how it is currently managed. Processes for DBAs should include formal change management, risk reviews, and fallback planning. Performance dashboards are demonstrated and the future of DBA input discussed. Regular assessments of best practices can increase predictability, enhance ROI, reduce risks, and increase overall efficiency.

1. Illusion of Communication Presentation aimed at DBAs

2. Structure Best Practice for DBAs People Processes Products What’s the Illusion of Communication You’ve been working hard, defending the databases…. How do you show this off? Performance Dashboards demo Future of DBA input

3. The Tao of Pooh If you don’t know What to Do Of all the things in front of you Then what you’ll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue So what do we do?

4. Best Practice

5. The Tao of Pooh Building and managing a successful database infrastructure requires: Right people Right processes Right products

6. People There’s no asset more important than a company’s data. You can’t give that responsibility to someone who doesn’t know how to handle it. (Malcolm Fields, CIO,Hon Industries)

7. People Alignment - Task and project completion can only be efficient when job functions join hands with business and operational objectives Breadth of Services: Performance Management Backup and Recovery Change Management

8. Products When evaluating the products that manage your database infrastructure, review: What is installed Where it resides How it is managed currently

9. Products Insight Prevention Documentation always impresses if there is any!

10. Processes A Database Administrator needs to support Processes: quickly and effectively manage change ensure business application availability making formal administration change management processes for database are necessary conduct risk/benefit reviews deployments calculate the worst-case failure scenarios set viable fallback schemes

11. Processes A Database Administrator needs to support Processes: Making processes and procedures easy to follow and achieving "buy in" from the DBAs who perform the management is important. Well-defined procedures help facilitate determination of whether changes have had the desired effect. Measuring the Performance of the operation through metrics enables the DBA to baseline and measure their own performance and effectiveness.

12. Performance If you have a performance problem, either your database is working too hard, or it’s not being allowed to work. - Jonathan Lewis

13. Performance Dashboards Demo

14. Future of DBA input Denali versus Project Lucy version

15. Summary Budgets are getting cut Business requirement are escalating Complexity is increasing as data volumes mushroom. Defend by routinely performing database management best-practice assessments increases the predictability of future project work enhances ROI by optimizing the performance of new and existing databases.

17. increasing overall operational efficiency