Forcing Execution Plans Through Profiles

Abstract

Sometimes it’s best to fix a problem and figure out afterward what went wrong and determine the root cause. By this I mean that when there are production time pressures to get something done, any way that works is good enough. The idea is to get the business back up and running, then sit at your leisure and work out what went wrong, figure out how to stop it from happening again, and develop a plan to implement the permanent fix in a controlled manner during a planned outage if required. Management is not usually very tolerant of perfectionists who want to understand every detail of a problem and its solution before acting: and if they are tolerant, it’s because they have another system in their pocket that’s keeping the lights on and the business going.