Someone took "iammysql" on blogspot so I am using the Japanese equivalent "mysqldesu", literally "I is MySQL".
I do mostly systems database admin work along with database engineering. My current company is pretty small and since we only have a handful of people with database experience I spend days troubleshooting production issues but also doing data modeling, scripting, ETL, automation, monitoring and training. I rely heavily on the community for all my database needs for SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL. This is my attempt to contribute to the MySQL community.
I see myself more as database engineer these days and less of a database administrator. In my last job I was doing Oracle and SQL Server and all I ever had time for was admin work.
Now, I spend a fair amount of time reviewing queries and code that dynamically creates queries written by developers that will later be used by the applications in production. Much of it ranges from Doctrine Query Langue to straight up SQL in PHP. I help with writing SQL reports, writing ad-hoc queries, modeling new databases, writing triggers, writing stored procedures, testing SQL for upgrades, benchmarking and proof of concepts. Lately, I've been automating database tasks in bash, setting up alerting jobs, ETL, reporting and upgrade automation in bash. I've also ventured into trying to do semi-Data Science by collecting data and doing some forecasting with it.
