January 23, 2009 at 10:45 am
This is ridiculously funny. We need to evaluate the workload of one of our DB Servers for capacity planning. It was marked as a legacy system a couple of years ago, so we've simply been maintaining it. Now they want to add more users to the application. No problem. We can load a baseline trace definition, store the results to file, load the data into a test box and perform our analysis. That sounds easy enough, or you think it would be. Nope! An email request was sent to one director. She replied copying another director and the support manager. Another recipient sent a request to a business director. Finally, after 11 emails and a debate about whether or not users should be notified, we can schedule the trace for Monday. Of course, we still must record our activities in the change control log.
What a major effort. We should be running a baseline trace regularly anyway. This is something I'd expect working for the government, but not a corporation. What do you all think?
January 23, 2009 at 10:58 am
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January 23, 2009 at 6:02 pm
So, late in the day, I received the 12th email to this saga. We were instructed to notify the users as a courtesy. That's like emailing the users when I check my email.
"All,
Please note, I'm checking my email. My inbox is pretty large due to massive amounts of useless email, so it may put a strain on the server. Please contact the help desk if you experience any performance problems." 😀
I really do love my job. The computers/databases are the easy part!!! :hehe:
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