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0 pointsblueplanet2004y ago0 comments

It sounds like "they don't know why it's going down." I've worked with plenty super competent people that have taken time to root cause incidents.

Guide to incidents: Step 1: Stop the bleeding Step 2: Prevent it in the future

Doing Step 1 doesn't make you incompetent.

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raffraffraff4y ago

I'm not a DBA, and maybe you're not a DBA either, so this question goes to DBAs who may be reading: aren't you always better off killing the bad queries instead of rebooting the whole box, if that's an option? (ie: aside from times when the entire host is screwed, load per core is >50, metrics aren't getting out, you can't ssh in etc)

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0 pointsblueplanet2004y ago0 comments

It sounds like "they don't know why it's going down." I've worked with plenty super competent people that have taken time to root cause incidents.

Guide to incidents: Step 1: Stop the bleeding Step 2: Prevent it in the future

Doing Step 1 doesn't make you incompetent.

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raffraffraff4y ago

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