Re: Griping about auditing (not the Oracle Kind)

On June 28, 2001 11:51 am, Miller, Jay wrote:
> Yep, I've dealt with incredibly incompetent consultants (Because of
> our new division of responsibilties, all programming must come from
> the development team. I

This brings up an interesting point - I've noticed that recently division of responsibilities is increasing and becoming more polarized. For example, in past incarnations, I was the dba, unix sysadmin, configuration manager, and responsible for software licenses for all software in the plant (in addition to whatever else the boss needed at that exact moment in time... :). Lately, however, I have started working on another project (in addition to my usual stuff) that has the sysadmin, development, "System" dba, and "Application" dba responsibilities spread across different group. Sysdba is handled by an Infernal Beuracratic Monster, sysadmin by somewhat Ejectable Data Sources, and Application dba stuff handled by we keaners. Very strange to have development arrive, review it for application impact, then send off any physical database change requests to another group.

I don't seem any valid reason to stratify the various responsibilities in this manner as it only seems to add several more layers of beauracracy without adding any addition value.

So,
a) am I alone, or have others seen this sort of stratification, and b) is my griping simply the loss of turf and the slowly broiling coup to get it back, or is it somewhat valid?

Cheers,
GC

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