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eWEEK.com Podcast: Automate Mundane Database Tasks to Increase Value

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Check out the following eWEEK.com Podcast: Mike Vizard talks with Robert Gardos, GridApp CEO.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/Automate-Mundane-Database-Tasks-to-Increase-Value/
Length: 00:19:21
Database administrators spend too much time performing mundane database tasks, such as deploying, patching and troubleshooting, and managing a diverse range of databases, rather than using the data to create value for the company, says Robert Gardos, CEO of GridApp Systems. […]

Boring Jobs Dull the Mind (and Insight Failures)

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Here is an interesting article:
BBC News: Dull jobs really do numb the mind
New research shows that people who are asked to perform repetitive tasks eventually go into “autopilot” mode in order to economize the work required to complete a task. I know this is true for me - ask me to create 20 databases and […]

Unleash Your “cognitive surplus”

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

A recent meme - cognitive surplus - has risen that describes the resources that have been brought to bare to accomplish a useful task once people get tired of wasting their time. The discussion started with a talk that shows how people have so much free time to work on improving the Wikipedia (the estimate […]

Only 10% of Oracle Databases are Secure!

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

A recent article in eWEEK revealed alarming statistics surrounding patch and CPU application. The survey was conducted by a company that appears to benefit from the patch application process being as painful as possible (they sell a solution that attempts to mitigate security risks surrounding non-patched databases). Back to the survey, here are a few […]

Can’t I Just Create a Script To Do That?

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The Clarity Action framework is fundamentally a better way to run your existing scripts than what you are likely doing now. Here is why:

You are passing in the exact information your scripts need to do their job. If your script acts on a database the script is run on an active instance of that database, […]

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