© Michelle Malcher 2018
Michelle MalcherDBA Transformationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3243-9_8

8. The Art of Automation

Michelle Malcher
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Huntley, Illinois, USA
 
DBAs learn that if they have to perform a task twice, it is worth the time and effort to automate it. There are scripts, and multiple scripts are part of the DBA arsenal. It feels that there is not always the time to automate because there is a way to quickly execute a script and pass along a script for further management. However, in the environments that we will be dealing with, automation is essential. There are too many databases, and the more tasks and times they are executed, it allows for the possibility of an error of a manual action to occur.
Automation prevents tasks ...

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