#DBHangOps 11/27/13 -- Ramping up new DBAs!

Please check out the recording below!

Hello everybody!

Join in #DBHangOps this Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT), to participate in the discussion about:

• How do you ramp up new DBAs?
  • How do you ramp up a non-DBA to being a DBA?

Be sure to check out the #DBHangOps twitter search, the @DBHangOps twitter feed, or this blog post to get a link for the google hangout on Wednesday!

See all of you on Wednesday!

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Show notes

Ramping up new DBAs

Literature/Media

• Blogs, Videos, and Podcasts
  • MySQL planet
  • OurSQL
  • DBHangOps
  • MySQL Performance Blog
    • Other Percona MySQL Blogs
  • #mysql factoid catcher
• Books
  • Effective MySQL Books
  • SQL Cookbook (O'Reilly)
  • SQL Hacks (O'Reilly)
  • SQL Antipatterns
  • The Art of SQL (O'Reilly)
  • SQL Tuning (O'Reilly)
  • High Performance MySQL
  • Learning MySQL (O'Reilly)
  • MySQL Cookbook (O'Reilly)
  • MySQL Administrator's Bible -- For administration of MySQL
  • http://www.amazon.com/MySQL-5th-Edition-Developers-Library/dp/0321833872/ref=dp_ob_title_bk/189-0930865-9072317
• MySQL Reference Manuals
  • MySQL 5.6 Reference Manual
  • InnoDB 1.1 for MySQL 5.5 User's Guide

Hands-on

• MySQL Marinate!
• Training
  • Oracle University's MySQL Training
  • Percona MySQL Training
  • SkySQL MySQL Training

Tools

• Oracle MySQL Utilities and their documentation
• Percona Toolkit and its documentation
• MySQL Sandbox
  • Have it automatically setup replication for you to play around with it
  • Have it auto-configure MySQL for you to have a quick and dirty instance

Words of Wisdom

• Learn by Doing
  • Don't be afraid to try something. It should work and if it doesn't, figure out why!
• Always try to build a reproducible case
• Blog about your experiences and learnings
• Never take your backups for granted
  • Look at Effective MySQL Backups
  • Listen to OurSQL podcasts about backups:
    • http://bit.ly/oursql035
    • http://bit.ly/oursql159