Confessions of an It Manager

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Confessions of an IT Manager

Phil Factor

Second Edition ISBN: 978-1-906434-18-2

Confessions of an IT Manager

2 nd Edition

by Phil Factor

First published 2006 by Simple-Talk Publishing Cambridge, UK

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Copyright Phil Factor 2009

ISBN 978-1-906434-19-9

The right of Phil Factor to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written consent of the publisher. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. This book should not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent publisher.

Editor Tony Davis

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Contents

Contents .......................................................................................... 3 Introduction..................................................................................... 7 Foreword ......................................................................................... 9 The DBA's Demise - a recitation .................................................. 10 Section I: On Learning to Love your Manager............................. 12

Training Your IT Manager................................................................. 13 The Septic Tank................................................................................. 19 The Yancey Men................................................................................ 23 Bunnikins!...