Challenges of being a Tandem DBA

• Repartition
• Reviewing and updating key values
• Merging Partitions
• Reuse Partitions
• Update statistics
• Gathering SQL/MX statistics
• Copy Statistics from One Table (or system) to Another
• Index maintenance
• Create
• Populate
• Drop
• Alter
• Specifying Access Previleges
• Grant
• Revoke
• Query Performance Tuning
• Building and Deploying Standard Queries
• Dataload/Unload
• Moving Data from MP to MX for Testing