datachick

I had a similar discussion on Twitter this week about IT professionals who claim that security can be applied after their work is done and handed over to others. It has generated some interesting discussions about who "does security" and what an IT professional's job is regarding security. I believe every role in IT (plus…

That's a good point. Auditors SHOULD be writing orgs up on this. practics.

The funny part is that my undergrad is in information systems, with a specialization in database systems. So it's funny that I was never a full on DBA. Just Accidental. One time as a Hostage DBA. .

Yes, important. We now have data features to target data protection. Design is about cost, benefits, and risks. By applying a huge blanket tact we often incur costs for little gain, while introducing risks for data that is underprotected.

Love real-life stories.

We share the same concern; we just look at the solution as taking different paths. I think making extra copies of production data is riskier, even with tall those security measures in place (and I know those security measures will be removed just as soon as they are point a dev laptop. Just like all the database…

I look serious enough there, right?

Glad you liked it. What else would you add to the list?

I think that's a compliment!

We should write something about what are the most common monitoring points and what they mean...

When did we work together???? Good point. I make lots of donuts cleaning up after those sorts of environments.

Ah, firefighting. I used to have a boss that LOVED being a firefighter, to the point that he seemed to invent fires everywhere he went. Then he'd fan the flames, get a raging inferno going and swoop in to put it out. Then he would repeat the process on some other project. I do know that there are some roles that are all…

I think that's true about a lot of "how to cope" posts, isn't it?

Measure...and monitor, then alert the right things. Which might vary by application and workloads.

That's good to hear. I work mainly on troubled projects, so I rarely see any of these things done. And great point about never being "finished".

Which hits?

I have to work alone a lot, too. But I prefer teams. I know others don't. I often have to step back and see whats going on when there is team dysfunction. Then try to motivate others to see it and take steps to correct.

Yes, happens in projects where there are no data architects a lot. Most of my business is cleaning up really painful designs.

At least we have recordings!

Well, you know you and I debate this. I think data quality and integrity are just as important. Part of that is being able to recover from bad/stupid things. But I see so many people focused on performance first, recovery second and data quality someplace down by "pretty reports".

cahunt wrote: If Data is Power and Absolute Power corrupts, then All Data Corrupts Absolutely.

Glad you liked it. 

I'm glad it helped. Do you have ideas about other anti-patterns?

And to think that data a rest is only one part of the entire data protection requirement scheme.

Then she sold the tapes of her helping him to the local TV station.

Yes, that's one of the dimensions of using data - how does it relate to other data? How doesn't it? And who should see this data?

Yes, staffing and other budgetary issues are heavy contributors to these incidents. At least in this case, C-level employees had to leave. 

There's a truth there, even outside IT.

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I'm not sure, but maybe it's just because I'm getting older and crankier. But I feel like there's less and less empathy being shown, at least, over the last few years. Part of this is because I specialize on getting troubled projects back on track. I think the other part is the rise in a sort of project "protectionism",…