In life there are not many guarantees. For DBA’s and developers there are a few:

1. Backups will become corrupted but only when you need them.

2. Clusters will fail to fail over

3. Your plan does have a whole in it. None of us are perfect and if we make a plan it will have a flaw or exploit that we cannot see or manage in a cost effective way.

4. Whatever you planed for should be re-planned until you feel you’ve covered all your bases. (See Below)…

Take this motivational Monday and revisit your plans for maintenance, backups, recovery etc.. Make them look more like below..

Thanks for reading.. See you guys out there!

Adam – @Adam_Jorgensen