The Human Cost of Managing Data

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The Human Cost of Managing Data

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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September 23, 2013 at 8:34 pm

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Gary Varga SSC Guru Points: 82166 More actions · Answer 1

Everything comes out of the woodwork once someone has left e.g. I didn't even manage to type this post without being interrupted because of an issue down to (but not caused by) someone who left a week ago Friday not being here to provide a clarification.

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Rod at work SSC-Dedicated Points: 34007 More actions · Answer 2

I don't really fit into the environment you've described, Steve, but we do, kind of. We're an IT staff of 2 people, having experienced dwindling budgets and reductions in staff ever since 2008. However, we still only have 1 SQL Server production node, and at least at this point that's sufficient. Still, I completely hear what you're saying about stress and burnout.

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dtinney Valued Member Points: 50 More actions · Answer 3

I think there's another aspect of the "scale well" paradigm that needs to be considered. When we do enter into the next order of magnitude at the server or staffing level you often need to consider adding the next level of administrative unit whether that be a person or software module geared more toward overall governance and performance monitoring. There are different demands on that resource and they should be purchased or hired based on their proven abilities in those areas.

If you have 1,000 servers you probably have some very high level monitoring and reporting tools to govern them and the responsibility for performance, outages, exception reporting rises to that module. If you have 10 IT staff do you have that same manager in place and are you expecting them to perform those administrative tasks that deal with performance, outages and exceptions? You should, in both cases it relieves some of the pressure on the layer below who are not necessarily designed to carry those functions out at the current scale and that will indirectly increase your uptime and throughput.

Cheers.