Stress Inoculation: Maintaining Performance Under Pressure
summary
Claims that acute outages become manageable through rehearsal and automation back up the advice: a prepared PowerShell log-folder restore and a checked script library replace frantic typing, a practiced checklist turns red incidents into orange, and the presenter times restores of hundreds of logs under three minutes. Recommended tools and practices are concrete: test environment parity, SSMS Template Explorer, SQLPS/Import-Module, versioned scripts in git, and documented rollback procedures.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Event introduction
- 4:06Speaker background
- 5:27Understanding acute stress
- 8:31Identifying acute stressors
- 11:22Fight or flight response
- 16:07The Cooper scale of awareness
- 18:55Effective stress management
- 21:53The power of inoculation
- 25:19Building a resource pool
- 30:12Managing expectations
- 33:44Protecting your resources
- 37:20Putting it all together
- 39:25Technical demo: Log restores
- 50:02Q&A and conclusion
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