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9. Automating Routine Maintenance and Break/Fix Scenarios

Peter A. Carter

(1)Botley, UK

The more proactive a DBA team is, the better service that it can offer to its internal or external customers, and the more cost efficient it will be. Using the techniques that you have learned in this book, you will be able to automate virtually any repetitive task. This chapter will demonstrate how to put what you have learned into practice and give you some ideas for automating responses to operational scenarios.

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Automating operational routines is sometimes known as runbook automation.

Automating Routine Maintenance

In Chapter 4, you have ...

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