tomorrow is delivery of...
a spyware cleanup
replaced hdd that was failing
new home machine
new office machine
replace failed UPS
tomorrow is delivery of...
a spyware cleanup
replaced hdd that was failing
new home machine
new office machine
replace failed UPS
Depends on what level. Low level is mostly passwords and stupid shit.
Upper levels are deployments, upgrades, and other major stuff. An upper level IT employee may rarely have to talk to users.
It also depends on what they do. All passwords are managed by Active Directory, so I never touch a password except to log in.
My job is part accountant (in fact I am going back to college to get an an accounting degree) I probably spend 90% of my time fixing and releasing financial batches. The other 9% are upgrades, and finally 1% are fun stuff like development.
Our admins, who art in data center,
security be thy name.
Thy network come
Thy policy be done
In cloud, as it is in LAN
Give us this day our daily password reset
and forgive us our forgetfulness
as we forgive those who take away our admin rights
and lead us not into porn sites
but deliver us from malware
for thine is thy network
and the rights and permissions
forever until they fire you
Amen.
Corporate Security - "If you can do your job, we're not doing ours!"
On the twelfth day of on-call the pager buzzed to me
Twelve Refreshes
Eleven Cartesian queries
Ten projects pending
Nine new accounts
Eight DB links
Seven password resets
Six sleepless nights
F-cking DataGuard!
Four archivers hung
Three failed backups
Two corrupt disks
and I'm the one sober DBA.