Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Is everymorning Healhcheck absolutely necessary??

Somebody recently made me thinking if everyday moning database healthcheck is absolutely necessary??? or should we only react when we get alerts or warnings.....

I think it depends on organisation to organisation. Some organisation these days are talking big about "VISIBILITY" and no doubt we have process like ITIL to accompolish their goals of visibility...

But what exactly is visibility means here??? does it mean there should be something like morning news time where DBA tells all developers and other stakeholders about the databases for last 24 hrs..

Can it be annoying?? or is it something which can be apprecited!!!

I think it all depends on your environment. When things are newly set up and everybody expect somethings coming from every specialist then it all looks good.

My personal view is that it is important regardless if anybody is keen to look at them or not. But again thats personal preference.

But if you want to place a process of distributing daily DBA reports ....better ask your boss and make sure people appreciate :)

or may be just create a space on sharepoint and upload there directly without actually sending email.

What do you say ???? I would love to hear your opinion on everyday DBA report