How many days of your life have you spent pouring over stats, charts, and dashboards trying to figure out WHAT IS CAUSING THE PROBLEM? Or spent hours firefighting a problem that you know could have been avoided if you just had time to modify that query last week? That, my friends, is the Time-Sucka. Chasing elusive problems, firefighting, explaining technical issues to your boss, developers, or even other DBAs, are all DBA Time-Suckas. And he LOVES to move in on your personal time. You remember personal time, right?
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Meet The Rest of The Monsters
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<a href="http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/225341#225341" target="_blank" ><img src="/themes/thwack/images/DPA_monsters/ph2.png" title="Winner of the 2002 database resource eating contest. This Performance Hog is a real pig when it comes to IO, CPU, and memory resources. Degrading performance for the end users." alt="Winner of the 2002 database resource eating contest. This Performance Hog is a real pig when it comes to IO, CPU, and memory resources. Degrading performance for the end users." onmouseover="this.src='/themes/thwack/images/DPA_monsters/ph1.png';"
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<a href="http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/225340#225340" target="_blank" ><img src="/themes/thwack/images/DPA_monsters/vw2.png" title="The Virtual Vandal loves hiding critical server resource metrics needed to solve VMware database performance problems. Good luck finding them!" alt="The Virtual Vandal loves hiding critical server resource metrics needed to solve VMware database performance problems. Good luck finding them!"
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<a href="http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/62275" target="_blank" ><img src="/themes/thwack/images/DPA_monsters/ts2.png" title="Days of your life spent pouring over useless tools trying to figure out - WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, is what the Time-Sucka’ loves best. Fo’ shizzle!" alt="Days of your life spent pouring over useless tools trying to figure out - WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, is what the Time-Sucka’ loves best. Fo’ shizzle!"
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<a href="http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/62277" target="_blank" ><img src="/themes/thwack/images/DPA_monsters/qb2.png" title="Everyone’s least favorite QB he places locks on rows or tables and blocks all other access to records. He is also a hit at parties with the forehead- beer-can-smash trick."alt="Everyone’s least favorite QB he places locks on rows or tables and blocks all other access to records. He is also a hit at parties with the forehead- beer-can-smash trick."
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<a href="http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/62278" target="_blank" ><img src="/themes/thwack/images/DPA_monsters/bos2.png" title="As president of the debate team, the Blame-o-saurus loves subjective information. Top weakness? Facts. Like those found by measuring response time." alt="As president of the debate team, the Blame-o-saurus loves subjective information. Top weakness? Facts. Like those found by measuring response time."
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<a href="http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/62279" target="_blank" ><img src="/themes/thwack/images/DPA_monsters/do2.png" title="Voted 'least easy-going', the DevObstacle loves to isolate IT teams and rigidly stands between DBAs and developers. No collaboration while he's around, boy howdy." alt="Voted 'least easy-going', the DevObstacle loves to isolate IT teams and rigidly stands between DBAs and developers. No collaboration while he's around, boy howdy."
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<a href="http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/225349#225349" target="_blank" ><img src="/themes/thwack/images/DPA_monsters/fl2.png" title="Just like that last relationship, moving from Enterprise Edition to Standard sucks! SE Feature Leecher is going to take away your performance monitoring tools that you used to rely on!" alt="Just like that last relationship, moving from Enterprise Edition to Standard sucks! SE Feature Leecher is going to take away your performance monitoring tools that you used to rely on!"
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