Great post from Andrey Sitnik about lessons learned from the Soviet Space program.

Short form is

  • Never blame users
  • Report issues no matter what
  • Have trust in automated tools –Let the robots do the work!

I see that last point echoed today by Tim Hall, Why no GUI installations anymore?

No professional DBA should be using a GUI for anything, if there is a possibility to script that action.

Onwards to automated deployments!