10Aug/16

A Good DBA Automates (Almost Everything)

August 10, 2016Database, Oracle, Personal Growth, SQL Serverautomate processes, database automation, oracle databases, scripting. awesome dbadianarobete

Do you want to get more done in a day, at work? Automate. Do you want to free up some of your time and focus on important things? Automate. Do you wantRead More…

13Jul/16

5 Things That Awesome DBAs Do, And You Can Too

July 13, 2016Database, Oracle, Personal Growth, SQL Serverask questions, awesome DBA, late no more, lead by example, learn from mistakes, stop complaining, things that awesome dbas dodianarobete

Did you ever wanted to be THE DBA in your team? You know who I am talking about…The one that knows things no matter what you ask, be that Oracle, SQL Server,Read More…

01Jun/16

3 DBA Skills To Master To Grow As A DBA

June 1, 2016Database, Oracle, Personal Growth, SQL Serverbig picture thinking, curiosity, grow, learn, skills;DBA;database administrator, users' languagedianarobete

What Skills Should I Learn To Grow As A DBA? My answer to this question, could surprise you, because today, I am not going to talk about technical skills at all. ThisRead More…

25May/16

How To Become An Awesome DBA – 3 Skills I Learned From My DBA Mentors.

May 25, 2016Database, Oracle, Personal Growthawesome DBA, becoming a database administrator, database administration, document, documentation, learn, Oracle, plan, readdianarobete

There are many things to learn and skills to improve, in order to become an awesome DBA. Today, I will share with you, the 3 most important things I learned from myRead More…

19Apr/16

How Good Is Your Rollback Strategy? – 5 Ingredients For A Successful Rollback

April 19, 2016Database, Oracle, Personal Growth, SQL Serverrollback;database;plan;rollback plan;change management; dba; deployment document;sox;csox;dianarobete

Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a change and all of a sudden the decision to rollback the change is taken? Did you have a plan to follow? OrRead More…

29Mar/16

3 Words To Eliminate From The DBAs Vocabulary (…and not only…)

March 29, 2016Personal Growthdianarobete

How we express ourselves affects not only how others perceive us but also our own behavior. Some people don’t know how powerful the spoken word is. The words you use on aRead More…

17Sep/14

Why Do I Love My Job?

September 17, 2014Personal Growth, WHYDBA, JOB, WHYdianarobete

My first journey into the database world started back in university, with my first project in Visual FoxPro pooling data from an Access database. Then in 2004, Greg Smith, one of theRead More…