Re: Segment growth monitoring

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Mark W. Farnham" <mwf@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 09:42:25 -0800

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Mark W. Farnham <mwf@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Every DBA hates surprises. With *EXTMON *working for you,


Probably every DBA of any worth at all has written something to track
growth and avoid surprises.

The proudest moment for the procedures used a previous employer was when a
critical database ran out of space on the day I had been predicting for 6
months.

As I recall they took the prognostications more seriously following that.


Jared Still
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