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Original topic: 【TiDBer 唠嗑茶话会 46】TiDBer 工作的一天是什么样的？
I accidentally saw a joke online saying that the happiest day for a DBA is: a cup of tea 
, a pack of cigarettes 
, and exporting a table all day.
Does this kind of “heavenly life” really exist in the current DBA work?
Today, let’s talk about what a day in the life of a DBA/programmer is like. Is it a heavenly day of just exporting one table (quick, tell us so we can all be envious) or incredibly busy (exhausted, come and vent a bit)?
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Let’s talk about how you spend a day at work. How many things do you have to deal with in a day?
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A mess of problems, busy from morning till night, didn’t get anything done from this week’s plan, and feel embarrassed to push it to next week. What should I do? 
On Singles’ Day, I browse the community, check out JD.com, and make some tea. 
Sometimes it really takes a whole day to import a table, or rather, not even a single table gets imported 
The first thing I do when I wake up is to check if there are any issues in the group that need to be addressed.
Then I brush my teeth, have breakfast, and go back to my room to continue working.
After that, there will be various colleagues reaching out on Feishu:
Product and Research
Business Department
Collaborative communication, multitasking in parallel~
The middle platform department is about cooperating with everyone who needs to do what needs to be done~
Then the remaining time can be used to think and do what I want to do, which is quite scattered.
Often, some activities are thought of during sleepless nights, thinking about what activities can be done.
Busy and never a moment to rest
Finished writing a summary after work in one sentence
Recently unemployed, under lockdown at home
I’ll report back once I find a job
Data center migration, one instance takes a whole day to export, export a bit and report an error, export a bit and report an error
In the morning, I arrive at the company a bit early to open asktug, check in, and see if there are any issues on the forum that I can help solve. I also look for any interesting questions that I’m curious about to join in the discussion, learn about the solutions, and broaden my knowledge. Then I get down to work seriously. It’s another happy day.
I sorted through 300 projects on GitHub by star count in descending order, but I couldn’t find an open-source, free SQL review platform that supports both Chinese and English. Another happy day.
After looking at the expression “a cup of tea, a pack of cigarettes, and a table for a day” for a long time, I couldn’t understand what it meant. I thought it was tea + cigarettes + (watch) = 1 day, until I saw the above DBA, then I understood.
My day:
In the morning, I arrive at the company, check emails, have a morning meeting, open my notebook and list what to do today. If I can start something, I start it. When it’s almost time for lunch, I check asktug, then go for lunch.
Afternoon: working hard + asktug + nucleic acid test + bathroom, and the afternoon is over.
Evening: meetings, dinner, working hard, and then go home.
When work gets busy, it’s like being a spinning top. With multiple tasks at hand, handling various issues. Suddenly, when all the work is done, there’s a brief moment of amnesia, and I can’t remember what to do next…
Identify issues, discover problems, solve problems, repeat.
After a whole day, it feels like I haven’t done anything…
Copying what the expert said is very similar, it’s just development, testing, copy.
Create databases, create tables, create indexes; analyze problems, solve problems; data import, backup.
Every day is
Operations → Encounter problems → Find solutions → Go to asktug, GitHub.
If you get busy, you don’t even dare to go to the bathroom.
Spent the whole day optimizing an SQL, browsing GitHub.
Browsing AskTUG and doing miscellaneous tasks, the day is almost over~
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