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Nov. 12th, 2003 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorrowmonkeyDreary data warehouse days...
I'm in a major holding pattern at work. Nearly 100% are moving cubes this week and next, so the influence on productivity is already taking hold. Combine that with the fact that most of my projects are on hold *anyway* for external actions (new power from the electricians, etc), I have very little real work to do.
Even the work that I have right now is "fire and forget". I start a long running-job, then come back every fifteen minutes or so to see how it's going. Since it's going to take about 12 hours, it's not too exciting.
In the meantime, I just keep reading documentation. I love to learn new things, and absorbing vendor material and third party books on stuff is fun, but I can only take so much. I've read about 1100 pages on data warehousing in the last 7 days, and I've done little else. My brain is starting to get that "full" feeling that says that I need to digest some before I'll be ready for more. Unfortunately, at least reading looks productive, digesting just looks like sleeping.
Ah well. I hope Zohra feels better soon. The colds and allergies that have been running around this week are most unpleasant.
I'm in a major holding pattern at work. Nearly 100% are moving cubes this week and next, so the influence on productivity is already taking hold. Combine that with the fact that most of my projects are on hold *anyway* for external actions (new power from the electricians, etc), I have very little real work to do.
Even the work that I have right now is "fire and forget". I start a long running-job, then come back every fifteen minutes or so to see how it's going. Since it's going to take about 12 hours, it's not too exciting.
In the meantime, I just keep reading documentation. I love to learn new things, and absorbing vendor material and third party books on stuff is fun, but I can only take so much. I've read about 1100 pages on data warehousing in the last 7 days, and I've done little else. My brain is starting to get that "full" feeling that says that I need to digest some before I'll be ready for more. Unfortunately, at least reading looks productive, digesting just looks like sleeping.
Ah well. I hope Zohra feels better soon. The colds and allergies that have been running around this week are most unpleasant.
