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Database woes

Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Sincere apologies for not writing in such a long time... I have been buried by a mound of oracle database disasters for the past week and a half... From the moment it became my responsibility the maintain this highly important production database there has been nothing but a series of disasters... Needless to say the biggest problem was restarting the boxes! We may never know what caused the original problems... It's finally back up, though I'm dreading the phone call that informs me that it is down again. I am back though... and looking forward to a few days oracle free. I've included this photo just for laughs... the entire oracle facility looks like a giant database schema!!

Labels: database, job, oracle

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A great day...

Friday, 12 December 2008

I love my job... I know sometimes I have bad days... sometimes there are bad projects... and very often I'm super stressed and never get to do anything else... but on the whole it's a great job... There's lots of variety... I have a fantastic opportunity to do good... To learn how to do new things... And to change the world! Today I even got to write articles about greening business for the Australian Business Solutions Magazine... Okay, so they aren't great quality because it was such short notice but if it does turn into a regular feature (which they're hinting about) that's a lot of influence I'll have over sustainability in businesses Australia wide... On Monday I'm off to do a green building assessment in Tongala (and maybe will stop over in Echuca while I'm travelling - Mum and Ganesh seem pretty keen too!) and the Green Card is really making a move... Businesses are getting very excited about it... I have the full support of the business for Creative Recycling (if I want it) - I guess I really am very very lucky. Oh.. and I was offered a raise today as well! My second big one this year... I haven't accepted it yet because I really can't work any harder... but it was flattering to be offered :-)

In other very exciting news Ganesh told me about my birthday present today - A night in the museum! We're going to spend New Year in Sovereign Hill living an 1850s lifestyle in full period costume and everything! I have been wanting to do that since grade 5 when I got the chickenpox on the first day of camp and missed out on all the fun of attending an old mining town school and learning my 17 times table (ok, I was pretty geeky back then too - I doubt the prospect of the 17 times table excites many 10 year olds)...

Anyway, there's lots to do and learn about green buildings and all these lux, temperature and power meters... and I have a new Mac Book Pro to set up and play with for someone at work! (Not that they really need setting up but who could resist?)...

Btw - does anyone want a copy of the Shield season 5? Andrew asked me to get it for him for Christmas... but then bought it for himself anyway! I'm not sure what it's about but knowing Andrew it involves law enforcement, the army, guns or Danny Crane...

Oh and Lachie's year 12 results are out at 7am on Monday!!! We're about to find out whether we have another engineer, scientist or lawyer in the family!

Labels: birthday, creative recycling, job, results, sovereign hill, the shield

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